[NetBehaviour] A Microcode in rhyme

[Pall Thayer]

I think a lot of people have sort of gotten over the "novelty" of Perl
and these practices have sort of fizzled out. It's a shame because
there is of course no chance that they exhausted all of the
possibilities. Perhaps the fact that Perl's not as popular as it was
has a lot to do with it. Based on this example, I don't think Python
really works for poetry:
http://honestpoet.wordpress.com/2007/12/23/worlds-first-poem-written-in-python/

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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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