As long as we are being silly (ref. George Carlin),
allow me to offer this hoary old chestnut up to the
input:
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The following poem appeared recently in INFOCUS magazine. The original
authors were Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese of Calvin College & Seminary
of Grand Rapids, MI.
A poll conducted among INFOCUS readers had established "waka" as the
proper pronunciation for the angle-bracket characters <> and , though
some readers held out resolutely for "norkies."
The text of the poem follows:
<> !*''#
^"`$$-
!*=@$_
%*<> ~#4
&[]../
|{,,SYSTEM HALTED
The poem can only be appreciated by reading it aloud, to wit:
Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,
Bang splat equal at dollar under-score,
Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,
Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH.
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Of course, it falls short in several Hackish ways ('hash'
instead of 'octothorpe,' for instance), and is even
internally inconsistent ('hash' and 'number' for '#'),
but it is not bad for a freshman effort. Maybe someday
I will make the appropriate adjustments to make it a
true encoded Hackish work that scans..
-- #ken P-)}Ken Coar <http://Golux.Com/coar/> Apache Software Foundation <http://www.apache.org/> "Apache Server for Dummies" <http://Apache-Server.Com/> "Apache Server Unleashed" <http://ApacheUnleashed.Com/>
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