Love poem in code for a Grooms Cake

[Jen Switalski]

Hi all,

I am engaged to a programmer. I, however, know very little about code
other than to always comment! Was hoping to have a surprise grooms cake
for our wedding with maybe a simple love poem in code written on it. He
likes writing in Ruby, Perl, etc. (He is a fan of object-oriented and
also of open source). He also has to write in C or C++ for his job.

Anyway, I was wondering if anyone who sees this post would know of any
"love poems" in a language like one of these. Like love in a forever
loop? Ha, does that even make any sense?

I suppose if I can't find this, I can just get a cake in the shape of
Tux.

I apologize if this is not using the forum appropriately, but don't
really know where else to ask.

Thanks!

P.S. Please no VB.

 

[James Coglan]

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Hi all,

I am engaged to a programmer. I, however, know very little about code
other than to always comment! Was hoping to have a surprise grooms cake
for our wedding with maybe a simple love poem in code written on it. He
likes writing in Ruby, Perl, etc. (He is a fan of object-oriented and
also of open source). He also has to write in C or C++ for his job.

Anyway, I was wondering if anyone who sees this post would know of any
"love poems" in a language like one of these. Like love in a forever
loop? Ha, does that even make any sense?

I suppose if I can't find this, I can just get a cake in the shape of
Tux.

I apologize if this is not using the forum appropriately, but don't
really know where else to ask.

Well I'm no poet but this is valid Ruby code:

i do
promise_to_love you until death.parts us
end

 

[Codeblogger]

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Hi Jen, what do you think of:

while(true) I.love(you)
end

Nicolai

 

[Jen Switalski]

Hi Jen, what do you think of:

while(true) I.love(you)
end

Nicolai

Hi Nicolai and everyone.

Thanks for the ideas, but since I don't actually know code, could you
include a short description of what the code says/means? The two posted
are nice and short, I just honestly don't quite know what they mean. Or
if they are simply rhyming in code that is not actually executable,
that's okay too. Thanks!!

 

[Daniel Berger]

Hi Jen, what do you think of:

while(true) I.love(you)
end

Let's make it a one-liner.

I.love(you) while true

Another idea:

I.love(you) until death do |us|
part
end

Regards,

Dan

 

[Ian Trudel]

Anyway, I was wondering if anyone who sees this post would know of any
"love poems" in a language like one of these. Like love in a forever
loop? Ha, does that even make any sense?

Weird!


loop do
p ["Jen", "YourFiancéName"].inject{ |i, you| i + " loves " + you }
end


Replace YourFiancéName accordingly. This small piece of code forever
injects loves between your fiancé and you. As a bonus, it would
output to screen "Jen loves YourFiancéName". A touch of subtlety is
always nice.

Best wishes for your marriage.

Regards,
Ian

 

[Daniel Berger]

Let's make it a one-liner.

I.love(you) while true

Another idea:

I.love(you) until death do |us|
=A0 =A0 part
end

BTW, this isn't "real" code, though it's legal syntax.

Regards,

Dan

 

[Codeblogger]

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Hi Jen,
I didn't even notice the rhyme.
Even better I think.

while(true)

I.love(you)
end

It's basically an infinite loop and it's simply two objects ("I" and "you")
combined by the verb/method "love".
And: Yes, it's actual code.

Glad to be of help!

Nicolai

 

[Joel VanderWerf]

There is the shell option:

$ yes "I love you"
I love you
I love you
...

(and so on)

It's not ruby, but most ruby people know some shell commands.

 

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

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Hi Jen,
I didn't even notice the rhyme.
Even better I think.

while(true)
I.love(you)
end
It's basically an infinite loop and it's simply two objects ("I" and "you")
combined by the verb/method "love".
And: Yes, it's actual code.

Not really:

irb(main):208:0> while(true)
I.love(you)
end
NameError: uninitialized constant I
from (irb):210
from .:0


Rather try:

class Person
attr_accessor :name
def initialize(name)
@name=name
end
def love(otherPerson)
puts self.name+" loves "+otherPerson.name+"\n"
end
end

I=Person.new("Jen Switalski")
you=Person.new("a programmer")
while true
I.love(you)
end

-->
Jen Switalski loves a programmer
Jen Switalski loves a programmer
Jen Switalski loves a programmer
Jen Switalski loves a programmer
Jen Switalski loves a programmer
Jen Switalski loves a programmer
Jen Switalski loves a programmer
...

 

[Phrogz]

    class Person
      attr_accessor :name
      def initialize(name)
         @name=name
      end
      def love(otherPerson)
         puts self.name+" loves "+otherPerson.name+"\n"
      end
    end

    I=Person.new("Jen Switalski")
    you=Person.new("a programmer")
    while true
      I.love(you)
    end

Let's tighten that up a bit, and remove the non-rubyesque camel
casing.

Person = Struct.new( :name ) do
def love( other )
puts "#{self.name} loves #{other.name}"
end
end
I = Person.new("Jen Switalski")
you = Person.new("Bob")
while true
I.love(you)
end

Dunno if that'll fit on the cake, but it gets closer.

 

[Michael Malone]

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Let's tighten that up a bit, and remove the non-rubyesque camel
casing.

Person = Struct.new( :name ) do
def love( other )
puts "#{self.name} loves #{other.name}"
end
end
I = Person.new("Jen Switalski")
you = Person.new("Bob")
while true
I.love(you)
end

Dunno if that'll fit on the cake, but it gets closer.

Whenever I've seen anything like this done, it's always been done in C.
Though I'm not suggesting we use C, I always thought the #include's
added a little something extra. So, why not put a couple of require's
at the top? Such as,
(require is the statement to include library functions/other modules, so
you can re-use functionality)

require 'love'
require 'time'

jen = Person.new("Jen")
fiance = Person.new("Fiance")

us = [jen, fiance]
love = Love.new(jen, fiance)

while(Time.now < Death.parts(us))
jen.loves(fiance) unless love.conditional?
end


This creates a new 'love' object, taking Jen and Fiance as parameters
(who are set up as 'constants') and loops while the current time is less
than when Death parts the two of you, it says that Jen will love Fiance
unless the love is conditional, which is funny because I put it in a
conditional statement. It needs editing, but it's something for others
to build on!

Michael



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[trans]

Probably a little to long...

death = nil

def we(r) ; puts "ready to #{x}y!" ; end

for x in %w{better worse richer poorer sickness health} do
until death do
we("part")
end
end

But it actually runs.

T.

 

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Probably a little to long...

death = nil

def we(r) ; puts "ready to #{x}y!" ; end

for x in %w{better worse richer poorer sickness health} do
until death do
we("part")
end
end

But it actually runs.

T.

I maintain that it should be 'death do *us* part'
we aren't parting death.
death is parting us.

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[David Masover]

I apologize if this is not using the forum appropriately, but don't
really know where else to ask.

Well, you might want to ask over on ruby-sonnets...

Seriously, I don't know where else you'd post this.

P.S. Please no VB.

Never VB!

You didn't tell us his name, so I'm not sure if this will work... Let's
say it's "Paul":

'Nothing'.between? 'Jan', 'Paul'

Evaluates to true. It means Nothing can come beween Jan and Paul. (Note:
Case-sensitive.) In this case, it's comparing strings -- Nothing is
alphabetically after Jan, and before Paul.

If his name doesn't come after Nothing, it gets trickier. Suppose he's
George:

!'anything'.between? 'Jan', 'George'

(The ! means "not", but "not anything" is less powerful a statement than
"nothing".)

You get the idea. Maybe there are nicknames that will work... Definitely
fits on the cake, at least.

 

[Jen Switalski]

All great ideas, thanks everyone!

Jen