Use Word or emacs?
Go with Microsoft or GNU?
Easy decisions.

Perl, Java, .NET?
Choosing from these is harder,
But I prefer Perl.

Remember fondly
The silly things we chose from
Back in the 80s.

TRS 80,
Commodore, or Atari?
Mine was an Apple.

A //c that had
A 1200 baud modem,
And Ascii Express.

Applesoft Basic
Had no "while", had no hashes.
Coding was a chore.

Then came the 90s
The fight was Mac or Intel
Steve Jobs or Bill Gates

With pretty windows,
640x480,
The old days were gone

Move forward some more
Unix, Linux, CGI,
They were all the rage.

Writing a shell script
Could do more in 5 minutes,
Than with hours of C...

The savvy noticed
that Perl could do it in 3,
plus it looks so cool

Give me a Perl job.
Goodbye old Apple //c,
Hello cubicle

In reply to Time capsule (haiku) by delirium

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