Geek Challenge Redux: Quotes and Lyrics

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There was a thread about this about a year ago. I thought it was fun as hell, but few other people really got into it, so I’ll try it again:

The challenge is to write song lyrics or a famous quote using some programming language. Any programming language, although COBOL is kind of cheating. The goal is to make the quote, saying, or song recognizable, but still remain functional code. The geekier, the better. For example:



class Proposition {
public:
   Proposition();

   bool operator == (const Man& aMan, const Man& anyOtherMan)
   {
      return true;
   };
}

void Gettysburg()
{
   Date now;
   now -= ((4 * 20) + 7) * 365;
   
   Proposition theProposition;
   Nation* pNation = Liberty::Conceive(theProposition);
   parent->bringForth(this->m_Continent, pNation);
}

Any takers?

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That was a lousy first example. Let me try another one.



void main()
{
   me->flyTo(theMoon);
   
   theStars.insert(me);
   me->play();
   while (me->isPlaying())
   {
      sleep(1);
   }

   Life& onJupiter = Jupiter->QueryLife();
   Life& onMars = Mars->QueryLife();   
   me->seeLife(onJupiter, onMars);

   me->m_Hand.hold();
   me->kiss();

   me->m_Heart.fill(new Song());
   me->sing();
   while (true)
   {
   }

   ASSERT((me->m_LongingTarget == you) && (me->m_WorshipTarget == you) &&
      (me->m_AdoreTarget == you));

   ASSERT(you);     // please be true
   me->love(you);
}
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#!usr/bin/perl

@onwall = (1..99);

foreach $bottle @onwall{
    takeonedown($bottle);
    passitaround($bottle);
    print $bottle;}

# okay, sort of a trivial case, but hey...
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I think it would be even geekier to do the opposite: to write songs mentioning UNIX commands in the middle of a song about something totally different. Which I’ve done. (Take that, former programmer Elvis Costello!)