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Original song Pinball Wizard
Original artist The Who[m]
Filk author MaJoC
Intro With apologies to Poppy for style clashes.

World-Wide Wizard

Ever since I was a nerdling
I've sought the silver site
I've out-surfed Alta Vista
I've built 'em mean and light
But I ain't seen nothing like this
A minimalists' delight
His short string o' Perl scripts
Sure yields a lean Web site.

He can take all the text files
On a database machine
Setting all the links up
Mercilessly clean
Coded intuition
Your first click's always right
His short string o' Perl scripts
Sure yields a lean Web site.

He's a World-Wide Wizard
There has to be a twist
That World-Wide Wizard's
On every top ten list.

"Where do you think he learnt that --- "
"(I don't know!)"
" --- browser-neutral style?"

No truck with distractions
No Java whistles or bells
No funky fonts a-flashin'
Text itself can tell
The story that's within it
Without das blinkenlights
His short string o' Perl scripts
Sure yields a lean Web site.

I thought I was
The CGI Supreme
But I'll bow down to that
All-time King of Clean.

Even on my last creation
He out-cooled my best
He unpacked his set of scripts
And they just did the rest
Took what I'd got working
Left it working *right*
His short string o' Perl scripts
Sure yields a lean Web site.

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