From: Rudolf Polzer <denshimeiru-sapmctacher@...>
Date: 2003-07-31T23:00:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Hm... nice, Euclid is a one-liner

Scripsit ille �Josef 'Jupp' Schugt� <jupp@gmx.de>:
> * gabriele renzi; 2003-07-30, 22:59 UTC:
> > I still believe RubyHaiku is the best , just replace syllables with
> > lines and you can do quite everything in ruby :)
> 
> 17 Lines? I thought of something sig-sized.

OK, now define what a syllable is. A token (including |, ; and others)? A
keyword or identifier? A keyword or identifier's syllable? Or even a
token's syllable: ; = se-mi-co-lon [probably not, I don't know English
hyphenation]? se-mi-ko-ro-n [oops, virtually no ; allowed in the first
or third line *g*]?

Hehe, and then there's the possibility to choose a word for a character.
One could call * one time "splat" and one time "asterisk" depending on
which one fits :-)

But somehow there won't be many programs left.

I'll try...

def euclid(x, y)                         # def-eu-clid-x-y
  x, y = y, x%y \                        # x-y-is-y-x-mod-y
while y != 0; end                        # while-y-not-nil-end

Well, at least it CAN be pronounced to fit...

but it doesn't have a return value :(

Can anyone fix it?

Renaming the procedure to "foo" helps, but splits up too much...

def foo(x, y) x,                         # def-foo-x-y-x
  y = y, x%y while                       # y-is-y-x-mod-y-while
y != 0; x; end                           # y-not-nil-x-end

No, I don't like it - too obfuscated, hard to read.

And now in distichon (one hexameter, one pentameter):
 
  d�f eucl�dus(x, �) x, � = �, x%� while
  � != �; return 'x;    �nd; p eucl�dus(4, '6)

read:

  d�f eucl�dus ex wh� ex wh� becomes wh�, ex mod wh� while
  wh� not zer� return �x || �nd pee eucl�dus four s�x

Doesn't follow the rules of which syllables are long and which not at all
(ex, eu are done wrong and especially inconsequently).

Conclusion: I can't, I am untalented in that. Perhaps someone else.


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Gott! war so gut! ach, war so lieb!