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Open Source of Frustration by Robert Wynne and Amanda Marlowe Music by Robert Wynne © 1999 I untarred it just an hour ago Then I made a tiny fix The error list's a hundred lines It must do this for kicks And the compiler's complaining that it don't know what to do I got the I can't compile without an error blues Don't know what's it's asking It's really got me pissed Cause the libs its says are missing Came right in the dist! And the docs are in Norweigan...I haven't got a clue I got the I can't compile without an error blues I started on this project I thought it would be fun I finally got the source compiled And the damn thing wouldn't run! Why does anyone write software that no one else can use? I got the I can't compile without an error blues I tried a different angle Forget what's on the shelf But this one don't run either And I wrote the thing myself! And it can't be Y2K, cause it's now 1902 I got the I can't compile (I can't even save the file) without an error blues
Amanda and I wrote this in #filkhaven back when it was still on TalkCity. I was chatting with her at the same time as trying to compile some software which wasn't cooperating, and I was venting my frustration to her since she was there to talk to. Writing the song was very theraputic, and eventually, I DID get the errors in the code fixed.
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