THE COMPUTER PERSON'S PRAYER
   from John A. Barry's  _Technobabble_, MIT Press, 1991


Our program, who art in
   Memory,
Hello be thy name.
Thy operating system come,
thy commands be done,
at the Printer as they are
   on the Screen.

Give us this day our daily data,
and forgive us our I/O errors
as we forgive those
whose logic circuits are
faulty.

Lead us not into Frustration,
and deliver us from Power Surges.
For thyne is the Algorithm,
the Application,
and the Solution,
looping for ever and ever.

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