Thread: Programming Haikus (post your own)

I came across a thread on this website about another programmer's frustration and it looked almost poetic, and others thought the same thing as well.

So it gave me the idea to start a thread where people can make up some programming Haikus and post them.

I'll start:

My mind has gone blank
Why can't I solve this problem
Please kickstart my brain

I am on a roll
Code flowing like a river
~Crash~! forgot to save...

Tuning out the world
I am in my own world now
I am such a geek

It's 4 in the morn
Haven't slept in three days
I really should bathe

Code:

if (interested)
   printf("A little haiku");
else goto next_post;

A variation of the popular "recursion. n. 1. see recursion" that has an end condition and thus is proper recursion:

Code:

recursion. n. 1
    if you still do not get it,
        see recursion. 1

Don't pronounce the symbols, just the words that are more than one character long. Oh, and main()-recursion is of course only valid in C.

Code:

int main(int argc,
    char *argv[]) { printf("bottle "
        "#%d\n", argc--); main(argc-1); }

Okay, so that was really silly . . .

No, wait, I have it. An encryption program!

Code:

int main() { int value;
    while((value = getchar()) != -1) putchar(
        ~value); puts("Goodbye."); }

It depends on EOF being -1, but still.

It's a trend! programmershaiku.com

Hmm, a spin-off of Martin Luthur King, Jr.:

Code:

main cannot recur;
    only others can do that.
except, of course, C.

The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao, until
You bring fresh toner.

My most beautiful creation...

Code:

The pointer is null
But still I dereferenced it
Segmentation Fault

The middle line is 8 syllables.

"But still I de-ref-er-enced it"

Just drop the "but" and I'd have to say it is an extremely clever haiku.