Recursive Star (Sung to "All Star")

Somebody once told me the function calls are gonna roll me
I ain't the fast chip in the set
She was looking kinda dumb with her finger and her thumb
Over the "L" on her keyboard that's enhanced for Internet
Well the call frames start coming and they don't stop running
Fed to the processor and I hit the memory gunning
Didn't make sense not to program for fun
Your AI gets smart but your brain goes numb
So much to call, too much memory to free
So what's wrong with taking the recursive scheme
You'll never know if you don't try
You'll never crash if you don't fry

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Hey now you're recursive, get your stack on, and go call
Hey now you're a programmer, get your code out, get paid
And all that's LISP is slow
Only AI people can know

It's an over clocked CPU and they say it gets warmer
You're sweating it out now, but wait till the recursive function gets longer
But the peer reviews don't differ
Judging by that hole in the memory picture
The loop we write is getting rather long
It's going to go on forever, unlike this song
My CPU's on fire, how about yours
It's the way I like it and I never get bored

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Somebody once asked could you spare some objects for a new class
I need to get myself way from this language
I said yep what concept
I could use a little code reuse myself
And we could all use a little C ++
Well the lists start coming, and they don't stop CONSing
Fed to the DEFUNs and got the CAR running
Didn't make sense to read this program when done
Your brain gets smart, but your AI gets dumb
So much to APPEND, so much to EVAL
So what's wrong with the TRACE HOOK
You'll never code if you don't go
You'll never debug if you don't LOAD

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