Ode to Keith

[Wade Ward]

Ode to Keith

Push, pop, and pope.

Bloop. It isn't so much that I don't know what a bloop is, but more the
case that the C Programming Language doesn't have it in the
Stichwortverzeichnis. What's that mean, troll.

Gloop. Thunderfist is in San Diego. Where art thou, brother. Where's the
supercomputer, troll.

Floop. Hofstadter's for loop. Brilliantly presented.

Dan, dane, Dan-ite. Do you have something against Mormons, because I know
with 100% clarity that people who might turn into stone while others fill
themselves with large, jelly-filled donauts mean mitch caboolean. Tja.

 

[Richard Bos]

Ode to Keith

Push, pop, and pope.

Bloop. It isn't so much that I don't know what a bloop is, but more the
case that the C Programming Language doesn't have it in the
Stichwortverzeichnis. What's that mean, troll.

Gloop. Thunderfist is in San Diego. Where art thou, brother. Where's the
supercomputer, troll.

Floop. Hofstadter's for loop. Brilliantly presented.

Dan, dane, Dan-ite. Do you have something against Mormons, because I know
with 100% clarity that people who might turn into stone while others fill
themselves with large, jelly-filled donauts mean mitch caboolean. Tja.

Utter, utter failure. You are not a good enough poet to be admitted to
social society, and you are not even bad enough to be a Vogon. I advise
slitting your wrists with the tip of your quill.

Richard

 

[Chris Thomasson]

Utter, utter failure. You are not a good enough poet to be admitted to
social society, and you are not even bad enough to be a Vogon.
LOL!

I advise slitting your wrists with the tip of your quill.

Well, that could end up hurting him: We don't want anything like that.
Perhaps next time he gets one of his brilliant idea's, something will
suddenly jump up and slap him clear across the face... A quick sting is
better than cutting veins!

ouch!

 

[Chris Thomasson]

Ode to Keith
Push, pop, and pope.
Bloop. It isn't so much that I don't know what a bloop is, but more the
case that the C Programming Language doesn't have it in the
Stichwortverzeichnis. What's that mean, troll.

Where's the supercomputer, troll.

[...]

http://www.sdsc.edu/

 

[Tak-Shing Chan]

Ode to Keith

Push, pop, and pope.

[snip]

Dan, dane, Dan-ite.

[snip]

This is not an Ode to Keith!

Tak-Shing

 

[Default User]

Ode to Keith

Push, pop, and pope.

Dan's not here man.




Brian

 

[Keith Thompson]

Ode to Keith

[snip]

*yawn*

 

[Christopher Benson-Manica]

*yawn*

Keith, a keen guru
cleaving through pointless drivel
with wonderful aplomb.

(Fortunately I don't get paid for my poetry either.)

 

[C. Benson Manica]

*yawn*

Keith, a keen guru
cleaving through pointless drivel
with wonderful aplomb.

(Apologies if this eventually appears twice; my regular news server is
having one of its bad days.)

 

[John Bode]

Ode to Keith

[snip...whatever that was]

What the hell was that all about?

 

[Army1987]

Ode to Keith

Push, pop, and pope.

Bloop. It isn't so much that I don't know what a bloop is, but more the
case that the C Programming Language doesn't have it in the
Stichwortverzeichnis.

It has, whatever a Stichwortverzeichnis is.

For example,
int i;
for (i=0; i<8; i++) putchar(i["*plonk*\n"]);
is one.

What's that mean, troll.

As we say in Italy, "è il bue che dice cornuto all'asino".
(Literally "it is the ox who calls the donkey horny").

 

[Richard Heathfield]

C. Benson Manica said:

Keith, a keen guru
cleaving through pointless drivel
with wonderful aplomb.

Thompson reflects on
Meaningful language questions,
Not the mayfly troll.

 

[Richard Harter]

C. Benson Manica said:


Thompson reflects on
Meaningful language questions,
Not the mayfly troll.

In a poetry contest would that be a high coup?



Richard Harter, (e-mail address removed)
http://home.tiac.net/~cri, http://www.varinoma.com
But the rhetoric of holistic harmony can generate into a kind of
dotty, Prince Charles-style mysticism. -- Richard Dawkins

 

[pete]

Ode to Keith

Push, pop, and pope.
[snip]

Dan, dane, Dan-ite.

[snip]

This is not an Ode to Keith!

I noticed that too.

 

[Old Wolf]

Keith, a keen guru
cleaving through pointless drivel
with wonderful aplomb.

The last line has six syllables

 

[Old Wolf]

Ode to Keith

[snip...whatever that was]

What the hell was that all about?

Keith Richards, judging by the content

 

[user923005]

C. Benson Manica said:


Thompson reflects on
Meaningful language questions,
Not the mayfly troll.

A whinging twit moans...

From the bottom of killfiles

does it make a sound?

 

[C. Benson Manica]

The last line has six syllables

with wonDROUS aplomb.

An off-topic post -
a feeble compliment, but
not a real haiku.

 

[Keith Thompson]

C. Benson Manica said:

Thompson reflects on
Meaningful language questions,
Not the mayfly troll.

Trolls and poets both
Gobble up late summer days.
Let's move on. (But thanks.)

 

[Army1987]

Ode to Keith

Push, pop, and pope.

Bloop. It isn't so much that I don't know what a bloop is, but more the
case that the C Programming Language doesn't have it in the
Stichwortverzeichnis.

It has, whatever a Stichwortverzeichnis is.

For example,
int i;
for (i=0; i<8; i++) putchar(i["*plonk*\n"]);
is one.

Of course, one could argue that for is defined as "do that until
expression2 is false", and this definition doesn't care whether it
is trivial to prove that it will become false at the eighth
iterations. But then, I don't know of any programming language
which has true BlooP-like bounded loops (nor I can see what the
usefulness of that would be). It's been a long time since I last
programmed on a Commodore 64, but I don't remember about
FOR I = 1 TO 0 doing anything different from an endless loop.
And if I understand correctly, one could pass an object of a class
with a custom iterator to Python's for, so in principle it is not
required to halt.