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

I could have been rich
I choose to go opensource
Code my life away

My peers play outside
But I sit at home and code
I say l33t and pwn3d

I could have had a life
But no programmer I be
What does sex feel like?

Code:

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

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Quote:

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Originally Posted by SlyMaelstrom

Code:

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

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lol, that is awsome!

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

Code:

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

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hehe, you guys are thinking of stuff I never would have. Let me think for a minute and i'll figure out a "code" haiku.

Code:

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do { nothing_at_all();}
while(!super_bored++);
now_its_time_to.sleep();

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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:

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

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Okay, so that was really silly . . .

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

Code:

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

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It depends on EOF being -1, but still.

It's a trend! programmershaiku.com

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

Code:

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

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

I need a Hazmat suit for such alarming levels of nerd.

My most beautiful creation...

Code:

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The pointer is null
But still I dereferenced it
Segmentation Fault

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The middle line is 8 syllables. :D

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

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

I would pronounce it de-ref-renced.

Either way, I agree. Very nice.

I debated about whether it was "de-ref-renced" or "de-ref-er-enced", but went with the first, hence the "but"

I guess if you have the need to speak it, you can choose the version you use based up on your pronunciation.

A political statement!

Code:

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Syntax highlighters:
the programs of the future.
Why not the present?

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That's odd, because I was creating my own poem with "segmentation fault" in it . . .

Hideki realized
that Chii turning on and off
was a design flaw.


well that's not programming... or is it?

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