Poetry Written in Code Contest
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A few coworkers were joking about writing poetry in code and I was curious to put it up here as a challenge to others. The premise is that you must write something that is poetry that is reasonably compilable (i.e. excluding the scaffolding of the language of choice). Bonus points if it produces output that is relevant to the theme of the poem. Here is an example to get you started:
float myhope;
float mypride;
if (myhope is Empty)
Goto ZeroDivide; -
And in Haiku:
double myTrouble;
if (sheFindsOut(myTrouble))
{
SummerDaysAreGone();
}Marc
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Not really poetry, but amusing regardless. +5
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Thank you Sid James. It only needs a last line of Hick. Hike. Hock.[^] to be perfect.
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
At first, I thought you were talking about William James Sidis, and I thought, "it wasn't THAT good."
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At first, I thought you were talking about William James Sidis, and I thought, "it wasn't THAT good."
Wikipedia wrote:
From writings on cosmology, to American Indian history, to a comprehensive and definitive taxonomy of vehicle transfers
What's one of them?
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
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A few coworkers were joking about writing poetry in code and I was curious to put it up here as a challenge to others. The premise is that you must write something that is poetry that is reasonably compilable (i.e. excluding the scaffolding of the language of choice). Bonus points if it produces output that is relevant to the theme of the poem. Here is an example to get you started:
float myhope;
float mypride;
if (myhope is Empty)
Goto ZeroDivide;/* Program LIFE
Implementation date: 04/12/60
Author: H.H. Evans
www.hiraethog.org
Notes: Run once only.
Parameters: None.
Date : 07/10/95
*/While NOT EndOfLife
DO();
Seek_Nipple();
Mimic_Betters();
Rebel();
Seek_Nipple();MULTIPLY self BY wife GIVING children; If Age < PastCaring% then Birthday\_Candles% = Birthday\_Candles% + 1; endIf Regret(Lost\_Opportunity); WishFor(Youth); ACCEPT Fate;ENDDO;
EndWhile;
STOP RUN.
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if (life == ToBe)
return Question;
else if (life != ToBe)
return Question;given only two wholly mutually exclusive conditions, this could be simplified to
return Question;
Either Hamlet was overcomplicating his problem or he was a stickler for convolution. Or perhaps it should be taken more literally as
return (ToBe == true);
But no, this is silly - this only takes the first condition and ignores the rest of the system specification. Besides which, it somehow doesn't have the same ring to it this way.
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if (life == ToBe)
return Question;
else if (life != ToBe)
return Question;given only two wholly mutually exclusive conditions, this could be simplified to
return Question;
Either Hamlet was overcomplicating his problem or he was a stickler for convolution. Or perhaps it should be taken more literally as
return (ToBe == true);
But no, this is silly - this only takes the first condition and ignores the rest of the system specification. Besides which, it somehow doesn't have the same ring to it this way.
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We can optimize it! :))
if (life == ToBe || life != ToBe)
return QuestionSo, finally, that's the statement:
if (true)
return Question -
Seems like you are slightly getting all the subtleties of Shakespeare's genius ;P OTOH, it is disastrous to see how the best translation in programming language, namely
return Question;( as you very correctly pointed out ) completely ruins the effect.Question = (2 * b) || !(2 * b); Is a nicer form but still only = Question; Then again Wit.soul = brevity;
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A few coworkers were joking about writing poetry in code and I was curious to put it up here as a challenge to others. The premise is that you must write something that is poetry that is reasonably compilable (i.e. excluding the scaffolding of the language of choice). Bonus points if it produces output that is relevant to the theme of the poem. Here is an example to get you started:
float myhope;
float mypride;
if (myhope is Empty)
Goto ZeroDivide;//OK, so it's plagerism! bool shallI; string thee; shallI = chkShallI.Checked; thee = txtYou.Text; string str1 = "Summers Day"; woman thou; if (shallI) { if (thee.Compare(str1) > 0) { thou.Loveliness += str1.Loveliness; //string extension method thou.Temperateness += str1.Temperateness // or you.Temperature ?? } else { thou.Loveliness -= str1.Loveliness; thou.Temperateness -= str1.Temperateness } }
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/* Program LIFE
Implementation date: 04/12/60
Author: H.H. Evans
www.hiraethog.org
Notes: Run once only.
Parameters: None.
Date : 07/10/95
*/While NOT EndOfLife
DO();
Seek_Nipple();
Mimic_Betters();
Rebel();
Seek_Nipple();MULTIPLY self BY wife GIVING children; If Age < PastCaring% then Birthday\_Candles% = Birthday\_Candles% + 1; endIf Regret(Lost\_Opportunity); WishFor(Youth); ACCEPT Fate;ENDDO;
EndWhile;
STOP RUN.
Very Nice. The full circle of life in a while loop.
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A few coworkers were joking about writing poetry in code and I was curious to put it up here as a challenge to others. The premise is that you must write something that is poetry that is reasonably compilable (i.e. excluding the scaffolding of the language of choice). Bonus points if it produces output that is relevant to the theme of the poem. Here is an example to get you started:
float myhope;
float mypride;
if (myhope is Empty)
Goto ZeroDivide;I don't have a poem, but I do have an interesting (I hope) story. I learned to program back in the 1960s on IBM equipment using punch cards. One evening four years ago I was waiting for my food in a Mexican fast food joint in Las Vegas and having a casual conversation with a couple of other customers about my age when the discussion somehow turned to old computers and using cards. It turned out that this lady and her husband had been programmers in the military back during the Vietnam war. While her husband was stationed someplace in South Vietnam, she was back in the US. During the period he remained overseas they exchanged love letters on punch cards. Their correspondence may or may not have rhymed, but I'm sure it was poetry to them. :-D
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A few coworkers were joking about writing poetry in code and I was curious to put it up here as a challenge to others. The premise is that you must write something that is poetry that is reasonably compilable (i.e. excluding the scaffolding of the language of choice). Bonus points if it produces output that is relevant to the theme of the poem. Here is an example to get you started:
float myhope;
float mypride;
if (myhope is Empty)
Goto ZeroDivide;:laugh: Wow! Does this mean I can use Goto in my code again? :laugh: Oh, Goto, I've missed you so You so helped my code to blow Now you've come to me again I can write again with sin! Ok, so it isn't in code, but it's about code...
Sincerely, -Mark mamiller@rhsnet.org
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if (life == ToBe)
return Question;
else if (life != ToBe)
return Question;given only two wholly mutually exclusive conditions, this could be simplified to
return Question;
Either Hamlet was overcomplicating his problem or he was a stickler for convolution. Or perhaps it should be taken more literally as
return (ToBe == true);
But no, this is silly - this only takes the first condition and ignores the rest of the system specification. Besides which, it somehow doesn't have the same ring to it this way.
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A few coworkers were joking about writing poetry in code and I was curious to put it up here as a challenge to others. The premise is that you must write something that is poetry that is reasonably compilable (i.e. excluding the scaffolding of the language of choice). Bonus points if it produces output that is relevant to the theme of the poem. Here is an example to get you started:
float myhope;
float mypride;
if (myhope is Empty)
Goto ZeroDivide;How about SQL? DECLARE @ROSE CHAR(1); SELECT @ROSE=IS_ROSE FROM GARDEN WHERE NAME IN (SELECT @NAME FROM NAMES); DECLARE @IS_SWEET CHAR(1); SELECT @IS_SWEET=@IS_ROSE;
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A few coworkers were joking about writing poetry in code and I was curious to put it up here as a challenge to others. The premise is that you must write something that is poetry that is reasonably compilable (i.e. excluding the scaffolding of the language of choice). Bonus points if it produces output that is relevant to the theme of the poem. Here is an example to get you started:
float myhope;
float mypride;
if (myhope is Empty)
Goto ZeroDivide;Adapted from an excerpt from Dr. Seuss' Fox In Socks. Not quite as smooth as I'd like, but it works.
if (fighter1 is TweetleBeetle
&& fighter2 is TweetleBeetle
&& theWeapon is Paddle
&& thePlace is Puddle
&& thePlace.place is Bottle)
return new TweetleBeetleBottlePuddlePaddleBattleMuddle();If fighter one is tweetle beetle, Fighter two is tweetle beetle, And the weapon is a paddle, And the place is a puddle, And the place's place is bottle, then return new TweetleBeetleBottlePuddlePaddleBattleMuddle
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A few coworkers were joking about writing poetry in code and I was curious to put it up here as a challenge to others. The premise is that you must write something that is poetry that is reasonably compilable (i.e. excluding the scaffolding of the language of choice). Bonus points if it produces output that is relevant to the theme of the poem. Here is an example to get you started:
float myhope;
float mypride;
if (myhope is Empty)
Goto ZeroDivide; -
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A few coworkers were joking about writing poetry in code and I was curious to put it up here as a challenge to others. The premise is that you must write something that is poetry that is reasonably compilable (i.e. excluding the scaffolding of the language of choice). Bonus points if it produces output that is relevant to the theme of the poem. Here is an example to get you started:
float myhope;
float mypride;
if (myhope is Empty)
Goto ZeroDivide;Note: at the time I wrote this, I had not read the other posts, and did not realize others were already taking on Hamlet's famous soliloquy.
// c#
bool? TheQuestion = true;
bool? ToBe = true;public bool? ToBeOrNotToBe()
{
return (TheQuestion == true && ToBe == true) ? ToBe : null;
}"Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the surface of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise." Annie Dillard