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20-27 September 2009
Newly commissioned artworks by Guthrie Lonergan, Oliver Laric, John
Michael Boling and Hanne Mugaas
Taking its title from a piece by Michael Bell
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
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'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
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
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:
triggers -
thoughts of death and annihilation
-- when i can't get dying out of my mind
-- when i find annihilation intolerable
-- when i'm living through my death and annihilation
thoughts of events immediately after my death
-- when i think of azure seeing, something, anything, immediately
