The 25 days of C++mas - December 24 - Twas the Night before C++mas...

Twas the night before C++mas, when throughout the lab,

The build farm was churning, the smoke tests were fab.

The new code was checked into Github with care,

In hopes that St. Stroustrup, soon would be here.



The engineers were huddled in scrum interactions,

Their thoughts full of objects, inheritance and abstractions.

And scrum master with his backlog, and I with my diff,

Had just focused our brains for a sprint retrospectif.



Out on the Hudson server, there arose such a klaxon,

We sprang from cubicles to see why we're bug maxin'.

To the build screens, we ran like lightning bolts,

Tore open the message logs, and smoke test results.



Who could we leverage, to shore our builds up,

I knew in a moment, it must be St. Stroustrup.

More RAD and visual C++ engineers we must aim,

And he tweeted, blogged and emailed them by name!



"Now Alisdair! Now PJ! Now Hans and Peter!

On, Thomas! On, Steven! on Walter and Beman!

To the bottom of the heaps! To the top of the stacks!

Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away the hacks!"



They spoke not a word, and how their fingers did roar!

With autos, lambdas, templates, and range based fors.

With classes, and enums, and constructors galore,

They completed the tasks and the build farm did soar!



He sprang from his compiler, to his team sent a tweet,

And away they all went, like calling delete.

And I heard him exclaim, when the job was well done,

"Happy C++mas to all, and to all a good run!"