From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107f24,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid107f24,public X-Google-Thread: f4fd2,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4fd2,public X-Google-Thread: 103d24,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid103d24,public X-Google-Thread: 1164ba,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid1164ba,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 10259a,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid10259a,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea8ea502d35ca2ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-23 09:12:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!freenix!grolier!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!colt.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!server3.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.basic,comp.lang.functional,comp.lang.scheme,comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Poetry in source code (was: Beginner's Language?) Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 16:24:08 +0100 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3B0BD618.E5E05418@brighton.ac.uk> References: <9cukad$nn68@news-dxb> <9d6b6e$1bt$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <87snihxiwc.fsf@frown.here> <9dbi83$sji$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <87heyu7cqd.fsf@frown.here> <9dc20p$hh15e$1@ID-37382.news.dfncis.de> <3AFA91BE.BB9E4C8F@brighton.ac.uk> <3B0A74D9.2A811C9D@brighton.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: straumli.it.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 990631431 12471 193.62.183.204 (23 May 2001 15:23:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 May 2001 15:23:51 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7706 comp.lang.lisp:10656 comp.lang.smalltalk:10054 comp.lang.functional:5795 comp.lang.scheme:3993 comp.lang.perl:2908 Date: 2001-05-23T15:23:51+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > > In article <3B0A74D9.2A811C9D@brighton.ac.uk>, John English says... > >Go on then, write me a poem in Lisp (or Cobol, or Ada, or Java)... :-) > > How about C? Try - > > http://www.ioccc.org/1998/schweikh3.c or > http://www.ioccc.org/1996/gandalf.c Ouch! Disgusting! No more, please! > I'm still not sure how one can claim that the ability to do this is a *good* > thing though... Anything but. I suspect that the ability to write poetry means that the language has gone from being merely flexible to being positively bendy (or bent :-). ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.comp.it.bton.ac.uk/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------