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Re: Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken [pdf]

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Post by Stately » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 9:32 AM UTC

This is the lecture that accompanied the paper:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk

Re: Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken [pdf]

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Post by nathell » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 10:49 AM UTC

Mithrandir wrote: post #17

rjuyal wrote: post #8

Chicken chicken, chicken chicken chicken chicken. Chicken chicken chicken[1]. Chicken chicken chicken {C(n)} chicken chicken. Chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken. ____ Chicken chicken chicken

Chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken: #!/chicken/chick/chicken chicken Chicken(chicken, chick, c): chicken chicken >= chick: # Chicken chicken chicken chick chicken(chicken-c) chick: chick chicken

Chicken chicken chicken-chicken chicken chicken Chicken Chicken?

  ((chicken chicken) (chicken chicken))

Re: Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken [pdf]

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Post by gbraad » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 10:52 AM UTC

He could have used random kanji/hanzi and probably be even more meaningful 胡说八道

Re: Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken [pdf]

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Post by cjg » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 10:53 AM UTC

LISP version:

(chicken chicken (chicken chicken chicken))

Can you come up with an implementation of chicken that allows this code to run?

Re: Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken [pdf]

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Post by riffraff » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 10:55 AM UTC

James_Duval wrote: post #29

anonymous wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is grammatically correct, since nouns can be verbed -- chicken can be a noun, verb and even adjective, even though its verb form doesn't have a defined meaning -- it's just meaningless. Think of it like this: struct chicken chicken(struct chicken chicken) { return chicken.chicken; } This will parse, it just won't compile, since we're missing the definition of struct chicken. Contrast with "chicken go fly", which i…

It does have a defined meaning, doesn't it? "to chicken (out of something)".

I though it was grammatically incorrect anyway i.e.

(the) (adj)chicken (name)chicken (verb)chicken

misses an "s" either on the verb or the name.

But it could be an imperative form perhaps? As in "coward poultry, get out of there"

Re: Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken [pdf]

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Post by hkolek » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 11:11 AM UTC

I don't understand. Why is this funny? Are you all 5 year olds or am I missing something?

Re: Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken [pdf]

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Post by tomweingarten » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 11:53 AM UTC

I wonder if one of those citations is to PLIF: http://plif.courageunfettered.com/archive/wc072.gif

Re: Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken [pdf]

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Post by Yuioup » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 11:57 AM UTC

:%s/\w\+/chicken/g

Re: Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken [pdf]

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Post by groundCode » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 12:13 PM UTC

James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher

Re: Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken [pdf]

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Post by kelvin0 » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 12:17 PM UTC

Yeah, that post entry gets traction when other newsworthy stuff gets canned. HN is slowly slipping into a weird dimension where Zombies are taking over ...