The Sunday Poem: The BASICs of life
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Mar 092008
10 Dimension all your variables, figure out their sides.
20 Remark, perhaps, on how data twirls across divides.
30 Print a hello world, as if the world could not read cursive;
40 Go to thirty, looped but still printed, not recursive.
50 For once you have some code that doesn’t do much else,
60 Next you’ll want to make it special, of yourself.
70 Data will be read, perhaps, or Fibonacci spun,
80 While you tally figures until the job is done.
90 Poke a byte, peek a bit, nybble ‘til you’re through,
100 End with too few memories, dimensions still unused.
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The Sunday Poem: The BASICs of lifePosted on March 10, 2008 by Raph
[…] crossed my mind, I would have ignored BASIC as a possible source of inspiration for a poem. This gentleman, however, found inspiration in that most unlikely of […]
For those reincarnationists out there, add
110 GOTO 10
Boy, I miss BASIC. Nice one, Raph!
There’s already a GOTO in there, you’d never reach line 110. It loops at line 40. 😉