[NetBehaviour] A Microcode in rhyme

[Alan Sondheim]

It's great - I forget about the Perl examples - I wonder if that culture's 
even going on at the moment.

- Alan


On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Pall Thayer wrote:

> But I don't think the code actually rhymed.
>
> This was actually put to me as a challenge by a friend. He didn't
> specify that actually had to do anything worth while and it doesn't.
> But it's syntactically correct, runs without error but doesn't produce
> any output. When making it, I wasn't producing it specifically to be
> part of the Microcode selection but it's an interesting experiment so
> I added it to the site.
>
> best r.
> Pall
>
> oh... ps. I made a slight mistake in the "read" example. It should of
> course be "If two equals two OR love matches u", not "AND love matches
> u". This makes a big difference since it means that the code within is
> executed but what is after the "else" statement is not. Otherwise it
> would produce output.
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Great - this reminds me of perl poetry, at the end of Larry Walls' book
>> (think I have the right name) - ALan
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Pall Thayer wrote:
>>
>>> Two or Love
>>>
>>> #!/usr/bin/perl
>>> if(2 == 2 || 'love' =~ /u/){
>>>        $two = 1 unless $none;
>>>        while($beef || $pork){
>>>                sleep(11) && fork();
>>>        }
>>> }else{
>>>        sleep(22) && print "fun";
>>> }
>>>
>>> (
>>> read:
>>> if two equals two
>>> and love matches u
>>> two equals one
>>> unless none
>>> while beef or pork
>>> sleep eleven and fork
>>> else sleep twenty-two and print fun
>>> )
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