Poetry Written in Code Contest

[Rage]

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.

[Member 4289613]

We can optimize it! :))

if (life == ToBe || life != ToBe)
return Question

So, finally, that's the statement:

if (true)
return Question

[Norman Dziedzic]

Question = (2 * b) || !(2 * b); Is a nicer form but still only = Question; Then again Wit.soul = brevity;

[User 8527408]

//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 } }

[Peter Kassenaar]

Very Nice. The full circle of life in a while loop.

[Jeffrey Ryman]

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

[Mark Miller]

: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

[CaptJosh]

Perhaps make the two conditions and make them part of the same conditional? e.g.

if ((life == ToBe ) || ( life != ToBe ))
return Question;

CaptJosh There are only 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don't.

[Michael A Cochran]

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;

[SirTimothy]

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

[Aiscrim]

If this is real Then
Nothing
Else
matters(2, Me)

[Alan Burkhart]

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

XAlan Burkhart

[BillWoodruff]

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

[Lost User]

Charlie and Charlotte, the lovers in C (doesn't compile, Charlie and Charlotte are incompatible types)

char*lie;
double time, me= !0XFACE,
not; int rested, get, out;
main(ly, die) char ly, **die ;{
signed char lotte,

dear; (char)lotte--;
for(get= !me;; not){
1 - out & out ;lie;{
char lotte, my= dear,
**let= !!me *!not+ ++die;
(char*)(lie=
"The gloves are OFF this time, I detest you, snot\n\0sed GEEK!");

do {not= \*lie++ & 0xF00L\* !me;
#define love (char\*)lie -
love 1s \*!(not= atoi(let
\[get -me?
    (char)lotte-

(char)lotte: my- *love -
'I' - *love - 'U' -
'I' - (long) - 4 - 'U' ])- !!
(time =out= 'a'));} while( my - dear
&& 'I'-1l -get- 'a'); break;}}
(char)*lie++;

(char)*lie++, (char)*lie++; hell:0, (char)*lie;
get *out* (short)ly -0-'R'- get- 'a'^rested;
do {auto*eroticism,
that; puts(*( out
- 'c'
-('P'-'S') +die+ -2 ));}while(!"you're at it");

for (*((char*)&lotte)^=
(char)lotte; (love ly) [(char)++lotte+
!!0xBABE];){ if ('I' -lie[ 2 +(char)lotte]){ 'I'-1l ***die; }
else{ if ('I' * get *out* ('I'-1l **die[ 2 ])) *((char*)&lotte) -=
'4' - ('I'-1l); not; for(get=!

get; !out; (char)*lie & 0xD0- !not) return!!
(char)lotte;}

(char)lotte;
do{ not* putchar(lie [out
*!not* !!me +(char)lotte]);
not; for(;!'a';);}while(
love (char*)lie);{

register this; switch( (char)lie
[(char)lotte] -1s *!out) {
char*les, get= 0xFF, my; case' ':
*((char*)&lotte) += 15; !not +(char)*lie*'s';
this +1s+ not; default: 0xF +(char*)lie;}}}
get - !out;
if (not--)
goto hell;
exit( (char)lotte);}

Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss:

[hmoulding]

ITYM wit.soul = brevity ;

[msvbdev]

Not really a poem, but here's some famous Shakespeare in C/C++

bool question = (toBe || !toBe);

[da808wiz]

...
send(girl,"Flowers");
send(girl,"Chocolates");
send(girl,"Money");
send(girl,"Heart");
if ( recv(girl)==cold_shoulder )
goto hell;
...

:hell
switch ( girl2 = new Girl() ) {
...

[User 8077241]

Class TimeGoesBySlowly

Function toSave(yourLife) As TimeGoesBySlowly

    For Each Day As TimeGoesBySlowly In yourLife
        Dim theLights As New TimeGoesBySlowly, TaketheTime

        toSave(yourLife) 'and
        Return (theLights) 'until the

    Next Day


End Function

End Class

http://thephilosopherstone.ca

[MacSpudster]

interface EternalLove
{
object ofMyDesire;
byte ofMyLoveAspire;

string meAlong;
double mySong;

private class ofYourAffection : ICollection {}

enum erateMyLoveForYou
{
rosesBought,
diamondsSought,
muchMuchThought
}

public abstract Array Divine;
protected Buffer recline;

readonly int endedProse;
long erWoes;

Exception Denied;
ExceptionHandler.ExceptionDialog AgonyUponMyPride;

StackOverflowException soMuchCommotion;
Screen myEmotion;

EventHandler ABrandNewDay;
Environment Secure_SoTheySay;

Help MeFindAWife; //as I
float alongThroughLife;
}

public class icWishfulThinking : EternalLove
{
//Son, yer on yer own.
}

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[Andrew Rissing]

Nice. +5