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(Props to nocarrier and Schwern and the rest of the #perl regulars)

Hanging out late one night

By the monitor's silv'ry light

We chat about the weather, perl, and things

But our peaceful time, it won't last long

'Coz some loser comes along

"I need to get the length of a string"

Chorus:

Why don't you read the man pages, boy?

You're a known lazy bastard

You're really lacking clue

Refuse to look things up

Then you ask us what to do

'Coz you're a known lazy bastard

I swear you'll never change

You'll never read a book

And you'll always pass the blame

We tell him to look it up

We point him over to perlfunc

We give him all the pointers, then we sigh

'Coz he's got a deadline for his class

He wants us to save his ass

And hoping that he'll leave, we oblige

Chorus

__BR__

You blame it on your parents

You blame it on society

You blame it on your public school teachers

But don't you dare put blame on me

It ain't over, it never ends

He'll be back, and he'll bring his friends

They'll ask how to change one line in a file

Why don't the year follow Y2K?

How can i get the size of an array?

Can you tell me how to break out of a while?

Chorus