That's the first version I came across when visiting Stanford in 1985. With no access to printers, and no way to transfer the file, I copied it by hand. I may still have that copy somewhere, although after 5 jobs and four house moves it's probably lost forever.
It's been discussed on HN before - here's one link:
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html
That has a Wikipedia article giving lots of additional information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Mel
It's believed that Mel was a real person, Mel Kay - here's a photo of the first class of LGB-30 programmers and instructors, including Mel Kaye:
http://zappa.brainiac.com/MelKaye.png
Many people prefer the "free verse" version:
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html
That's the first version I came across when visiting Stanford in 1985. With no access to printers, and no way to transfer the file, I copied it by hand. I may still have that copy somewhere, although after 5 jobs and four house moves it's probably lost forever.
It's been discussed on HN before - here's one link:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678999
There are 13 submission of Mel on HN so far, including one just 4 days ago:
https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3A%2...