The Thread Not Traversed

Kinda reminds me of the time Robert Frost was a technical writer for a day :-)


 The Thread Not Traversed


TWO threads diverged in a yellow stack, 

And sorry I could not traverse so 

And be one parser, long I stood 

And looped through one as long as I could 

To where it spawned in the overflow;


Then invoked the other, as just as fair, 

And having perhaps the faster stats, 

Because it was hashed and wanted wear; 

Though as for that the data there 

Had run them into third normal form,


And both that session equally lay 

In objects no instance had trodden class. 

Oh, I kept the version for another day! 

Yet knowing how code leads on to code, 

I doubted if I should ever unit test. 


I shall be documenting this with a sigh 

Somewhere many transactions hence: 

Two threads diverged in a stack, and I— 

I took the one less traversed by, 

And that has caused the site to fly.