Thread: Programming Poetry/Humor?

As October 12 approaches, I am reminded of a Haiku I wrote in remembrance of the late Dennis Ritchie

"Ode to Dennis"

The beauty of C,
Procedural ecstasy.
Memory frees me.

I was inspired by one of the great haiku's:

One-hundred ten.
One-hundred eleven.
One-hundred twelve.

Anybody else know any good programming artistry or jokes?

Originally Posted by salty99

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Anybody else know any good programming artistry or jokes?

This might have gone in the "But Is It Art?" thread:

Code:

float InvSqrt (float x){
   float xhalf = 0.5f*x ;
   int i = *(int*)&x;
   i = 0x5f3759df - (i>>1);
   x = *(float*)&i;
   x = x*(1.5f - xhalf*x*x);
   return x;
}

... except that there's no question.


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Here's a good joke. It's related to Java so you know it's going to be hilarious.

Did you know that using, say, "scanner.nextInt()" instead of the righteous "clavier.lireInt()" French equivalent is absolutely unacceptable programming behavior, and shall be granted with a grade of 0 should you dare putting that in a test? No? Welp, too fucking late. Have a nice zero next to your name.

This is so fucking funny. I'd be out of breath if I wasn't busy smashing my skull on my desk.

While not strictly software related, I came across a meme one of my buddies made when we were in a complex state space variables class in our undergrad - This one had me LOLing for a good few minutes.



I've seen automata theory, disgusting physics, abstract mathematics of various kinds, but nothing I have ever witnessed came even close to the level of absurdity I've seen in control theory mathematics. Out of a total 6 questions, I got one question right on my final in that class, attempted 2, and left 3 blank and got a B+. I thought I wanted to specialize in controls - that class made me change my mind faster than a jackrabbit in heat.

In other news, I think there needs to be some sort of capchta QA/QC standardization - some of these are just getting out of hand

That one's easy.
"Fuck you"

Ah I should have specified - in electrical engineering fields, such as electromagnetics and signals and systems, convention uses j to denote the imaginary component rather than i, as i is also used for current in many cases.

One of the fundamental identities being Euler's formula which states e^(jz) = cos(z) + j*sin(z) using this convention. This meme is a parody of that identity