That is the first tattoo I've been tempted by in a while. Shades of
Obfuscated C! Unix is a pile of puns and grammar jokes like this. Laft-brain
puns. As it were.
Siri strikes me as something that could do scripting puns in a more
right-brain manner, like when that Scot asked for a sandwitch and she told him
she didn't know where to get pajamas. Programming languages are short on
verbs.
-Neal
> I have a deep and long running affection for programming puns. I’m sure most
> people will be aware of Jaromil’s fork bomb
> http://jaromil.dyne.org/journal/forkbomb_art.html
>
> The elegance of this one seems like the direct opposite of other kinds of
> programming word play (such as the ones Rob mentions below). The commonality
> though is in the way that they sort of duck in and out of being about
> performative action (as in being computational) and being a formal game.
>
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> From: Rob Myers <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
> Subject: Re: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] on interpreters and compilers
> Date: 22 March 2014 22:36:47 GMT
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