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The Shakespeare Programming Language
Erik Tjernlund writes: "Oh, where art thou my lovely new programming language? Stop fiddling around with those perl magnets and use a real poetic computer language: The Shakespeare Programming Language. Not a compiler, but it converts to C. Cool 100+ line Hello World example. Amazing what CompSci-students can create when they really should do real work."
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The Infamous Hello World Program.
Romeo, a young man with a remarkable patience.
Juliet, a likewise young woman of remarkable grace.
Ophelia, a remarkable woman much in dispute with Hamlet.
Hamlet, the flatterer of Andersen Insulting A/S.
Act I: Hamlet's insults and flattery.
Scene I: The insulting of Romeo.
[Enter Hamlet and Romeo]
Hamlet:
You lying stupid fatherless big smelly half-witted coward!
You are as stupid as the difference between a handsome rich brave
hero and thyself! Speak your mind!
You are as brave as the sum of your fat little stuffed misused dusty
old rotten codpiece and a beautiful fair warm peaceful sunny summer's
day. You are as healthy as the difference between the sum of the
sweetest reddest rose and my father and yourself! Speak your mind!
You are as cowardly as the sum of yourself and the difference
between a big mighty proud kingdom and a horse. Speak your mind.
Speak your mind!
[Exit Romeo]
Scene II: The praising of Juliet.
[Enter Juliet]
Hamlet:
Thou art as sweet as the sum of the sum of Romeo and his horse and his
black cat! Speak thy mind!
[Exit Juliet]
Scene III: The praising of Ophelia.
[Enter Ophelia]
Hamlet:
Thou art as lovely as the product of a large rural town and my amazing
bottomless embroidered purse. Speak thy mind!
Thou art as loving as the product of the bluest clearest sweetest sky
and the sum of a squirrel and a white horse. Thou art as beautiful as
the difference between Juliet and thyself. Speak thy mind!
[Exeunt Ophelia and Hamlet]
Act II: Behind Hamlet's back.
Scene I: Romeo and Juliet's conversation.
[Enter Romeo and Juliet]
Romeo:
Speak your mind. You are as worried as the sum of yourself and the
difference between my small smooth hamster and my nose. Speak your
mind!
Juliet:
Speak YOUR mind! You are as bad as Hamlet! You are as small as the
difference between the square of the difference between my little pony
and your big hairy hound and the cube of your sorry little
codpiece. Speak your mind!
[Exit Romeo]
Scene II: Juliet and Ophelia's conversation.
[Enter Ophelia]
Juliet:
Thou art as good as the quotient between Romeo and the sum of a small
furry animal and a leech. Speak your mind!
Ophelia:
Thou art as disgusting as the quotient between Romeo and twice the
difference between a mistletoe and an oozing infected blister! Speak
your mind!
[Exeunt]
I have never understood why people say there is no money in Linux. The value of the Windows software I have sold to my customers is far, far less than they pay me for support.
Friends who know more about Linux than I have converted the server farm of a school district to Linux. Judging from what they say, the support time required is about 1/8 that of Microsoft Windows. But, there is still support needed. The cost of support is still more than the cost of OS software, from any vendor.
Bush's education improvements were
Have you ever noticed how kind and considerate Slashdot readers are?
Bush's education improvements were
There is no limit to the examples we can give to display the value to Linux in today's corporate America. Every major software vendor (including microsoft) recognize the value, and are making software for the platform. While I know I'm wasting my time, please indulge me as I poke holes in your TROLL/FLAMEBAIT post.
the outlook looks bleak - Look again. I can name 10 companies, 3 of which I know you heard of, that have implemented (successfully) Linux as the primary OS for the entire corporation this quarter.
No longer buffeted by the heady currents of the internet gold rush - I assure you that if you look around, you will find that EVERY internet based business (again including Microsoft) are feeling the affects of the post 'gold rush' economy.
Linux-based companies - which have never made any appreciable amount of money lets compare the number of Linux based companies that showed up on fuckedcompany.com with the number of Wintel based businesses. !!Oh look!! Not saprisingly, they are strangly similar.
appear to have reached their darkest hour yet - okay, I guess you need to eat more carrots.
Just as the markets have started to recognize the absurdity of valuing web sites with no apparent means of making money at billions of dollars, and are instead examining the underlying worth of companies, they are also recognizing that companies required by their underlying philosophy to give their product away, do not have significant revenue opportunities. - okay, and your point is? let me break this out a little for you... you have two companies, one that runs Linux, and one that runs Microsoft software. Both are equal in every other way. Both start with the same amount of funding. Both run out of said funding. Bottom line is that the Linux company spent $0 on OS licensee.
As a result, the development of the user interface (the most important part of a system) of open source products - without a cent to spend on research - relies on ideas stolen directly from Windows. - the correct way to respond to this is to not, but the next best thing I can think of is something like this...
1) stolen ??? - you mean like M$ did you apple, visa vi Xerox? Or do you mean stolen as in how microsoft is trying to steal market share from AOL, or any other media/content provider?
2) Have you heard of a little technology called X11? please read up on it. I think you will find that it's past has very little to do with micro$oft
I know the AC that posted that will never read this. And anybody that might agree with me, could easily say it better, but I feel better now.
I don't hate Microsoft, but... never mind.