A sleepless night reading way too many blogposts (and a bit high off my Alaska trip) inspired the following eight Ruby poems. Let them serve as indicators that I should never pursue literature as a career. Let them also, hopefully, be fun to read. They got progressively weirder as the night goed on.
$the_love_you.display \
do not let it end
__END__
#requires a file called 'dark and stormy night', obviously
1.times do
open 'dark and stormy night' { |story|
story.read.display
} #the
end
__END__
for once in 'my life'... 'I' do
not know if the pain
will end
__END__
#Ask the Oracle:
/to port this code to Java will not/.require 'time'
#=> false
__END__
Err... well, that's a pretty easy thing to check...
And there wouldn't be much fun in reading or writing it if not for having to conform to a certain set a rules (ruby syntax, in this case)*. You should figure out how my Matrix poem doesn't crash. Good fun.
(Also, for those lurkers out there who are considering publishing my poems -- know that Thunderbird oddly stripped off exactly one leading space from all my lines, so it's not my fault they're all misaligned.)
Devin
*And yeah, that might just be my own oddity, but I doubt it.
Well, they don't have to be verified to produce a certain output...
simply that they compile as valid ruby code. That's as easy as
select-copy from the browser, then in a terminal:
$ ruby
<paste>
CTRL-D
Jacob Fugal
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On 9/6/05, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
Oh yes, that's right, I have nothing better to do then check your ruby
poems against a testcase ;D
Well, they don't have to be verified to produce a certain output...
simply that they compile as valid ruby code. That's as easy as
select-copy from the browser, then in a terminal:
$ ruby
<paste>
CTRL-D
Actually, even easier. Since I was nice enough to include __END__ after each poem, just include that in your paste, and Ruby treats it like a CTRL-D.
or, even easier if you use a mailer that has vim for it's editor: select the
lines visually (using 'shift-v' and the arrow or movement (jkl;) keys), then
type ':!ruby'. this will replace the poem source with it's output - all
without a mouse or leaving your mailer.
-a
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On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Devin Mullins wrote:
Jacob Fugal wrote:
Well, they don't have to be verified to produce a certain output...
simply that they compile as valid ruby code. That's as easy as
select-copy from the browser, then in a terminal:
$ ruby
<paste>
CTRL-D
Actually, even easier. Since I was nice enough to include __END__ after each poem, just include that in your paste, and Ruby treats it like a CTRL-D.
--
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phone :: 303.497.6469
Your life dwells amoung the causes of death
Like a lamp standing in a strong breeze. --Nagarjuna
> Jacob Fugal wrote:
>
>> Well, they don't have to be verified to produce a certain output...
>> simply that they compile as valid ruby code. That's as easy as
>> select-copy from the browser, then in a terminal:
>>
>> $ ruby
>> <paste>
>> CTRL-D
>>
> Actually, even easier. Since I was nice enough to include __END__ after each
> poem, just include that in your paste, and Ruby treats it like a CTRL-D.
or, even easier if you use a mailer that has vim for it's editor: select the
lines visually (using 'shift-v' and the arrow or movement (jkl;) keys), then
type ':!ruby'. this will replace the poem source with it's output - all
without a mouse or leaving your mailer.
Well, they don't have to be verified to produce a certain output...
simply that they compile as valid ruby code. That's as easy as
select-copy from the browser, then in a terminal:
$ ruby
<paste>
CTRL-D
Actually, even easier. Since I was nice enough to include __END__ after each
poem, just include that in your paste, and Ruby treats it like a CTRL-D.
or, even easier if you use a mailer that has vim for it's editor: select the
lines visually (using 'shift-v' and the arrow or movement (jkl;) keys), then
type ':!ruby'. this will replace the poem source with it's output - all
without a mouse or leaving your mailer.
What mailer do you use?
--
email :: ara [dot] t [dot] howard [at] noaa [dot] gov
phone :: 303.497.6469
Your life dwells amoung the causes of death
Like a lamp standing in a strong breeze. --Nagarjuna
