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Straff

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Jul 3, 2009, 12:20:34 AM7/3/09
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There once was a lang called Scala
which tried to take JVM farther
Though it's statically typed,
perhaps much overhyped
With a Lift in might just stay on the radar

a bit more poetic license required hereon...

There once was a lang called Groovy
which Dick always says is looovly
But it looks not that smart,
in the eyes of this podcart
That's a brick Wall of horror movie

There once was a lang called Java
In its day hotter than lava
It's run its race,
at such a pace
Now it's time for less palaver

(for 3rd and 4th lines ...
It's done the job,
but time to lob

it once floated,
but now it's bloated

now antiquated,
to be deprecated

it's old hat,
give it a pat


There once was a lang called Ruby
Of course runs the JVM smoothly
dynamic at heart,
rails against old farts
It allows one to code more frugally

Christian Catchpole

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Jul 3, 2009, 8:52:32 AM7/3/09
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there once was a lang called cobol
that gained momentum like a snow-ball
although its verbose
and you'd think its a ghost
you cant fart without it being stored somewhere in PACKED-DECIMAL

Casper Bang

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Jul 3, 2009, 9:09:02 AM7/3/09
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There once was a lang called basic
That gave every teenage boy a kick
Although it grew like a rose
Its goto's aren't exactly prose
And ended up giving people a NERVOUS TICK

Christian Catchpole

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Jul 3, 2009, 9:22:15 AM7/3/09
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There once was a lang called logo
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Christian Catchpole

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Jul 3, 2009, 9:24:17 AM7/3/09
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MOVE.L #'THER', D0
MOVE.L D0,(A0)+
MOVE.L #'E ON', D0
MOVE.L D0,(A0)+
MOVE.L #'CE W', D0
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MOVE.L #'AS A', D0
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MOVE.L #' LAN', D0
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MOVE.L #'G CA', D0
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MOVE.L #'LLED', D0
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MOVE.L #' ASM', D0
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Casper Bang

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Jul 3, 2009, 9:30:08 AM7/3/09
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There once was a lang called C
SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault at 0x1c0005c2 in main ()

Christian Catchpole

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Jul 3, 2009, 9:31:33 AM7/3/09
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bravo! :)

Dave Patterson

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Jul 3, 2009, 10:56:56 AM7/3/09
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Best scala rhyme I've got so far is 'Hezbullah' but I aint goin'
there!

On Jul 3, 2:31 pm, Christian Catchpole <christ...@catchpole.net>
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Alex Turner

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Jul 3, 2009, 7:39:51 PM7/3/09
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Fatwa goes too, and so does Abdullah, and so does Gom Jabbar, though
I'm not sure what that leads to either!!

Alex

Alex Turner

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Jul 3, 2009, 7:41:59 PM7/3/09
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The once was a language called C,
That had been preceeded by B,
but it had no objects
so was useless for projects
So was ditched for Java with glee!

Alex

Joey Gibson

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Jul 4, 2009, 11:12:34 AM7/4/09
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There once was a lang called Scala
That was sweeter than juice from Odwalla
Whether foldLeft or foldRight
It it such a sight
To see Lists reduced down with such might!


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Joey Gibson

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Jul 4, 2009, 11:16:50 AM7/4/09
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10 seconds after posting this, I realized the last line was supposed to rhyme with the first two... crap...

Casper Bang

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Jul 4, 2009, 11:42:50 AM7/4/09
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There once was a language called Fan
That catered to your average man
With a runtime to sweet
The CLR and JVM would meet
In an effort to broaden attention span

wojciech.halicki.piszko

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Jul 6, 2009, 2:42:57 AM7/6/09
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There once was a language called Scala
Send down from the Gods of Vallhalla,
To mere mortals,
Who couldn't go through the first tutorial.

Mark Derricutt

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Jul 6, 2009, 4:38:31 AM7/6/09
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The was once a language called clojure
That made a coder named Mark go purr [1]
Such that he disturbed a coworker
Which thankfully didn't end with a harassment order

[1] http://www.flickr.com/photos/talios/2725171052/

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Habanero

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Jul 6, 2009, 8:36:50 AM7/6/09
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There one was a language called scala
Used by Dick at the scripting bowl gala
If you've not seen the movie
It just lost to The Groovy
Though it ran like a sprinting impala
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