Programming Poems

#1

Post by hyporthogon » Sat, Aug 11, 2018, 2:02 AM UTC

Programming Poems
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Re: Programming Poems

#2

Post by diMario » Sun, Aug 12, 2018, 8:11 AM UTC

A Programmers Lament

King of sorrow, Prince of bits

do make this a server hits

WHILE TRUE AND FALSE OR ELSE IF NOT

loops will break and . comms .

Much fading of the Blinken lit

Re: Programming Poems

#3

Post by KineticLensman » Sun, Aug 12, 2018, 9:27 AM UTC

They are good, but not as good IMHO, as these programming haikus [0]

  A file that big?
  It might be very useful.
  But now it is gone.

  You step in the stream,
  but the water has moved on.
  This page is not here.

And several others

[0] https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/error-haiku.html

Re: Programming Poems

#4

Post by Pica_soO » Sun, Aug 12, 2018, 11:02 AM UTC

See the golemn, walk and talk, for to the perchment, spark and life was given, see the slave, stumble and fall, who once was bright and driven.

Re: Programming Poems

#5

Post by andreareina » Sun, Aug 12, 2018, 1:00 PM UTC

KineticLensman wrote: post #3

They are good, but not as good IMHO, as these programming haikus [0] A file that big? It might be very useful. But now it is gone. You step in the stream, but the water has moved on. This page is not here. And several others [0] https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/error-haiku.html

This seems to apply to the site right now[1]:

    Stay the patient course
      Of little worth is your ire
      The server is down

Wayback machine snapshot[2]. They seem to mostly (completely? I didn't check them all) be drawn from the NetPositive error haikus[3]

[1] http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/gnu.org.html

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20180108182544/https://www.gnu.or...

[3] http://8325.org/haiku/