Re: He's Pro-Django (humour)

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" <doran_at_UTA.EDU>
>Sent: Oct 30, 2010 2:24 PM
>To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>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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