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Friday, January 23, 2004

Song Parody: "Don't Know Much" by Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt

Look at this code
With each revision growing
Look at the comments
Are any of them really worth knowing?

I don't know much
But I know the case law
And that may be
All I need to know

Look at this rule
It could not be complex-er
The girl with a contract
Can't tell if this affects her

I don't know much
But I know the case law
And hopefully
It's all I need to know

[bridge]
So many questions
Still left unanswered
So much
The court did not decide
And when I'm parsing clauses
The pain that this code causes
The thing I need to know is how
This rule's applied

Look at that judge
I trust he ruled it rightly
So I read the cases
And the code cites only slightly

I don't know much
But I know the case law
Wish that would be
All I'd need to know, whoa…oh…oh…oh…ah…