For the first two stanzas, how about:

Perl! I love the colorful syntax you bear
And the way you use ne eq cmp to compare...

Ah! I hear the sound of an apocalypse
Larry's getting slashdotted and the server's on a tear
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(those comparison operators have to be pronounced, not spelled, for this to scan). -- Zeno - Barcelona Perl Mongers http://barcelona.pm.org http://www.javajunkies.org