Bravo!! Well done! I guess I'm not the only one whose mind instantly played that song in his head when first reading about Django.
-----Original Message-----
>From: "Doran, Michael D" <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Oct 30, 2010 2:24 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: [CODE4LIB] He's Pro-Django (humour)
>
>He's Pro-Django
>
>(sung to the tune of "Mr. Bojangles" and with
> abject apologies to Jerry Jeff Walker)
>
> I knew a man pro-Django and he proselytized
> For DRY;
> "It's plugable, reusable, for rapid dev,
> Give it a try."
> He praised Python, he praised Python,
> Which it's written in.
> He's pro-Django, he's pro-Django, he's pro-Django,
> That's his stance!
>
> I met him in a thread on code4lib, I was
> So confused.
> He seemed to me to be a code guru
> And he was so enthused
> He talked of code, he talked of code,
> That's readable (unlike Perl).
>
> He said he was pro-Django, and he made his case
> Throughout the thread.
> He quoted stats, and better apps, and praised Python,
> It had appeal.
> He showed us graphs, he showed us graphs,
> Took on detractors.
> He's pro-Django, he's pro-Django, he's pro-Django,
> That's his stance!
>
> He talked to those with coding woes at conferences
> About the web.
> He spoke with tears of fifteen years maintaining Perl
> No commenting at all.
> Then a Perl web app died, just up and died,
> After two years he still seethes.
> He's pro-Django, he's pro-Django, he's pro-Django,
> That's his stance!
>
> He said "I code Python at ev'ry chance at hack-a-thons
> and parse MARC blobs.
> But most the time I'm working on some Java apps
> 'Cause I need this job."
> He sent his post, and as he sent his post I saw someone reply "He's
> pro-Django, he's pro-Django, he's pro-Django,
> That's his stance!"
>
>-- Michael
>(A gray-beard Perl programmer who has resolved to start learning and using Python in 2011)
>
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