[NetBehaviour] A Microcode in rhyme

[james morris]

Hi Pall,

'A Microcode in rhyme' is interesting. The discussion that followed
caused me to google "common lisp poetry" ( some time ago i briefly
tried to learn common lisp and soon found something else to do instead
).  The results found were not quite as what you have done, but
interesting:

http://community.schemewiki.org/?p=lisp-poetry&c=e

and

http://www.dreamsongs.com/ArtOfLisp.html

which turns out to be quite an interesting site:

http://www.dreamsongs.org/PoetryOfProgramming.html
 (but a little old now).


james.


On 21/9/2009, "Pall Thayer" <pallthay at gmail.com> wrote:

>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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