Lord, it is confirmed. We have another quirky doctor in the group.  

You are right where you belong, Matthew!

On Tuesday 11 July 2006 19:12, Matthew King wrote:
Here's why I'm a doctor and not a song writer. I'm hoping someone else
will contribute a few stanzas maybe about the early days, etc :-)



The VistA Story



So then I said Hey Mista!

Tell me what's the deal with VistA?

Where can I find the story

That outlines all it's glory?



He looked at me real funny

Like I'm just some kind of dummy



But he said it plain and clear

And when the words came to my ear

I knew you only understand it

When you write your code around it.



Because the story's in the code                          ;chorus

It's what you find between the nodes

When the ancient globals sing

To your coded new routines

As you call down through the layers

You remember all the players

All the packages unique

But together when they speak

And that's how they tell the story

Of VistA and it's glory.



They say the power's down

Across every little town

The situation's dire

There's a hurricane and fires



How can the crews receive

All the injured and the grieved?



Do I hear someone scream Hack?      ; see DSL::VistA
usr/local/FOIAVistA/vista_cprs file

As I reach into my pack

And I boot Bhaskar's CD

For VistA instantly



Now a laptop servers running                ;VistA can and should be
modified for emergency

For the little thumb drives humming        ;response

With the Delphi-written GUIs                ;docs bring laptops, hand
out thumb drives

In the stadiums and movies

And countless lives are saved

By disks that Bhaskar made



This code is not class one                      ;The VA model is not
perfection through

We will never get it done                       ;stated, static goals,
but keeps pace with clinical changes

The references are dangling                   ;through iteration and
user interaction

'Cuz programmer mode is mangling

As it kills data direct hit

So now Fileman won't index it



But our doctors need it now

We need to get it done somehow

So let's send it and then fix it

Before Woodhouse even gets it                         ;he hates those
direct calls...

Just send it to New Orleans

And we'll patch it in the mornin'





matt

-- 
Nancy Anthracite


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