Re: [FWP] perl poetry: push on, learn and code;

[Joey Mitchell Comeau <aw096@chebucto.ns.ca>]

> Something I wrote a few months ago at the insistence of someone who should
> really know better (go watch _Trainspotting_ if you don't get it).  
> Apologies for the lack of incorporation in an appropriate script:


Something I wrote that you reminded me of. Back when it seemed like I'd
never get anywhere with programming. (bleh) Apologies for the lack of
'fun' or scriptness.


	Choose isolation. Choose becoming bitter at everyone and
everything around you, and forgetting why. Choose learning to program
instead of learning how to deal with real life. Choose shifting bits and
using references for complex data structures while your phone rings
unaswered because you can't be bothered to fscking deal. Choose an
alternative to sleep. Choose a fading compexion in front of a monitor that
you worship the same way those monkies worship TV. Choose talking in text
instead of talking in person. Choose dying alone in your bedroom with a
hard drive full of the programs you based your life around. Programs lost
forever when your computer is reformatted after you die to put windows
onto it for resale value. Choose wasting your life. Choose isolation. 

---- but why would I want to do a thing like that?

joey


If A is success, then the formula is A = X+Y+Z. X is work, Y is play and Z
is keep your mouth shut. -A. E. ----- aw096@chebucto.n(o)s(pam).ca -------





> 
> 	Choose mnemonic identifiers.  Choose Strict.  Choose Packaging.  
> 	Choose a bloody obscure naming convention, choose library paths
> 	longer than the program text, golf, JAPHs and operatoratic
> 	pedantry.  Choose 5.6 , high caffiene and upgrading woes.  Choose
> 	no friends.  Choose black jeans and matching #!/bin/perl JAPH
> 	shirts.  Choose names for your OO libraries in a range of obtuse
> 	weird injoke-derived names.  Choose Perl and wondering why the
> 	fsck you don't have an outside life.  Choose 'use'ing those
> 	fscking OO libraries and wondering what on earth you were on at
> 	the time.  Choose rotting away at the end of it all, always
> 	bringing up your lowest ever JAPH score, nothing more than an
> 	embarressment to the selfish, fscked up lusers who just installed
> 	8.3 and know nothing about how real perl programming is meant to
> 	work.
> 
> 	Choose Your Future.
> 
> 	Choose to Have Fun With Perl
> 
> --==--
> Bruce.
> 
> Its all Jason's fault.
> 
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