| A | is for Ada, Lady and language |
| is for Ada, Lady and Tongue; |
| is in APL, legacy language... [SamChevre] |
| B | is for Babbage, making a difference |
| is for Babbage, who saw quite a difference [Janet Lafler] |
| is for Babbage, too long unsung [Fragano Ledgister] |
| C | is for Cantor set in his ways |
| is for counter, most useful tool [Fragano Ledgister] |
| is for Cray [Jacque] |
| is for Cray, blinding of speed, [Michael Roberts] |
| D | is for Dunce, elementary fool [Fragano Ledgister] |
| is for ... da da da need? [Michael Roberts] |
| is for Dijkstra, who's ever so formal [Jakob] |
| E | is for Eliza, [Michael Roberts] |
| F | is for Fortran, with extensions through V [Bruce Cohen (Speaker to Managers) ] |
| G | is for Godel |
| is for green bar, coolest of paper, [Michael Roberts] |
| H | is for Hopper, COBOL from Grace [Steve C] |
| is for Hollerith, cards most holey [FennelGiraffe] |
| is for Hopper, Grace to us all [Jacque] |
| is for Hopper, the first to debug! [Lee] |
| I | is where I realize Fragano's legacy code has an off-by one error. [Michael Roberts] |
| J | is for Jobs, Apple of i [Scott Taylor] |
| K | is for Knuth, who someday will finish [Janet Lafler] |
| is for Alan, who creates the future [Bruce Cohen (Speaker to Managers) ] |
| is for Kernighan, co-builder of C. [Michael Roberts] |
| L | is for L is for Latin, a speech of some worth, [Fragano Ledgister] |
| M | is for McCarthy, who wrote with a LISP [Janet Lafler] |
| is for Microsoft, owner of Earth. [Fragano Ledgister] |
| is for Minsky, Perceptron denier, [Bruce Cohen (Speaker to Managers) ] |
| N | is for number, a symbol a sign, [Fragano Ledgister] |
| O | is notation, frequently big |
| O stands for nothing, at least in this line. [Fragano Ledgister] |
| P | is for Pascal, now long forgotten, [Fragano Ledgister] |
| Q | is for Quux, an original hacker [Bruce Cohen (Speaker to Managers) ] |
| is for query most misbegotten. [Fragano Ledgister] |
| R | equals RPG II, of cycle most odd [Linkmeister] |
| is for Racter, a program most merry; [Fragano Ledgister] |
| is for regexp, with brain-bending syntax [Bruce Cohen (Speaker to Managers) ] |
| S | is for Stroustroup, who added to C [Janet Lafler] |
| is for Stanford, West Coast of AI [Bruce Cohen (Speaker to Managers) ] |
| T | is for Turing, halted forever |
| is for tuple, container for Linda [Bruce Cohen (Speaker to Managers) ] |
| U | is for Univac, child of Eckert and Mauchly [Bruce Cohen (Speaker to Managers) |
| V | is for Voronoi, diagrams for neighbors. [Bruce Cohen (Speaker to Managers) ] |
| is for Vista, an OS quite blurry [Linkmeister] |
| W | is for window, a porthole on programs [Bruce Cohen (SpeakerToManagers)] |
| X | is for X-windows, MIT's brainchild [Bruce Cohen (Speaker to Managers) ]
|
| is for Xerox, a walk in the PARC |
| Y | is for Yourdon, selling snake-oil solutions [Bruce Cohen (Speaker to Managers) |
| Z | is for Zed, used to specify programs [Bruce Cohen (Speaker to Managers) ] |