Lang of Java

"I cannot read the fiery letters," said Frodo in a quavering voice.

"No," said Gandalf, "but I can. The letters are Ascii, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of C++, which I will not utter here. But this in the Common Tongue is what is said, close enough:

One Class to rule them all, One Class to find them,
One Class to bring them all and in the language bind them.

It is only two lines of a verse long known in Hacker-lore:

Applets for the managers under the Sun,
APIs for programmers in their cubes in rows.
Beans for developers doomed to run,
Chars for the Unicode no other language knows
In the lang of Java where the Objects lie.
One Class to rule them all, One Class to find them,
One Class to bring them all, and in the language bind them
In the lang of Java where the Objects lie."

He paused, and then said slowly in a deep voice: "This is the Master Class, the One Class to rule them all. This is the One Class that Sun lost many ages ago, to the great weakening of his power. He greatly desires it -- but he must not get it."

-- David Matuszek
(with apologies to J.R.R. Tolkien)