Take a complicated idea
And make the underlying point of it clear
Compress it down to fit in memory
Now tell me what's the difference
Between programming and poetry?
Programming is a poetry for our...
Programming is a poetry for our time
Indenting every line
Sorted into stanzas so that you can find
Selected lines to quote or just a phrase to paste
Into the epics that live underneath
The Web and Word and Databases
Programming is a poetry for our time
It's a poetry for our time
I wonder would Wordsworth have written in Perl?
Would Keats have used Notepad for HTML?
I reckon Byron would see
The irony
Of writing words to change the world that we
Can't live without but no-one ever sees
Programming is a poetry for our...
Programming is a poetry for our time
And even though it doesn't rhyme
The syntax of a JavaScript will often be sublime
And though the poets now don't have the glamorous style
Of the poets of the past they didn't either when alive
Programming is a poetry for our time
It's a poetry for our time
The river running beneath our lives
Is a poetry for our time
And make the underlying point of it clear
Compress it down to fit in memory
Now tell me what's the difference
Between programming and poetry?
Programming is a poetry for our...
Programming is a poetry for our time
Indenting every line
Sorted into stanzas so that you can find
Selected lines to quote or just a phrase to paste
Into the epics that live underneath
The Web and Word and Databases
Programming is a poetry for our time
It's a poetry for our time
I wonder would Wordsworth have written in Perl?
Would Keats have used Notepad for HTML?
I reckon Byron would see
The irony
Of writing words to change the world that we
Can't live without but no-one ever sees
Programming is a poetry for our...
Programming is a poetry for our time
And even though it doesn't rhyme
The syntax of a JavaScript will often be sublime
And though the poets now don't have the glamorous style
Of the poets of the past they didn't either when alive
Programming is a poetry for our time
It's a poetry for our time
The river running beneath our lives
Is a poetry for our time