#!/usr/bin/python

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   # Curmudgeon_Article_Generator.py  #
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   import random

   i=[ "C", "Ada", "Assembler", "Fortran", "lisp", "binary programming with patch cords", "time sharing mainframes",
   "by dropping off punch cards and wait two days for the output", "butterflies", "a magnetized needle and hard disk platters",
   "C++", "C#", "Python", "Ruby", "Django", "Ruby on Rails", "Cobol on Cogs", "Scheme", "Smalltalk", "Haskell", "Erlang",
    "Distributed Systems", "Parallel algorithms", "network programming", "Win32 API's", ".NET", "Perl", "Unix", "Windows 95",
   "Windows Vista", "GUI's", "VAX command line", "vacuum tubes and a sodering iron", "an abacus", "clay tablets",
    "wire, duct tape and spit", "transistors", "slide rules", "microcomputers with 5 1/2 inch floppies", "machine language", "a PDP 10"]

   for x in range(20):
	print "\nKids today don't know squat about programming."
	print "Why when I was that age, we didn't have %s." % random.choice(i)
	print "We learned programming the hard way, using %s!" % random.choice(i)
	print "Boy, am I ever grateful."