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Jabberwocky In ActionScript

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the lighter-side dept.

VeryVito writes "You can tell Flash programming is beginning to grow up: It's not just for designers anymore, but for real, honest-to-goodness tech geeks. As evidence, I present The ActionScript Jabberwocky. Enjoy!" It's almost as good as reading it in the original Klingon.

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  1. Re:Okay, but does it compile? by FoboldFKY · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Perhaps, but this is an ActionScript programmer. If he had the requisite skills to munge the C preprocessor to produce poetry in code (that love letters one being my favourite), then he wouldn't be programming in ActionScript!

    ...he'd be programming in Perl :P

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    We're geeks... We're the sorcerers of the modern-day world. --
  2. huuurrahhh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    well said and its nice to see a positive comment.

    after all - lets be honest - its a hell of a lot nicer to look at than anything acheivable in HTML (And a lot more reliable not so much of that browser difference issue to worry about).

    and yes this is from experience - i use flash as The tool for the front end side of projects.
    eg,
    a net based multi player quiz (- xmlsocket comms back to server)
    interactive educational tools.
    data reporting front end (loading xml data and graphically displaying it). ...and oh pleeeaasse... that old 'it takes so long to download' argument is really starting to age a bit.

    actually on that note - can we have a wee survey... who here is looking at these pages via 56k dial in? ;)

  3. Re:The original by mad.frog · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Depends. I always assumed that "mome" was an adjective describing "rath", presumably a noun, in which case

    raths['mome'].outgrabe()

    might be more appropriate...

  4. Correct! by overunderunderdone · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Correct, at least as far as it can be. Carroll has Humpty Dumpty give an explanation:
    "And then 'mome raths'?" said Alice. "If I'm not giving you too much trouble."

    "Well a 'rath' is a sort of green pig, but 'mome' I'm not certain about. I think it's sort for 'from home'--meaning that they'd lost their way, you know."

    "And what does 'outgrabe' mean?"

    "Well, 'outgribing' is something between bellowing an whistling, with a kind of sneeze in the middle: however, you'll hear it done, maybe--down in the wood yonder--and when you've once heard it, you'll be quite content. Who's been repeating all that hard stuff to you?"

    "I read it in a book", said Alice.
    Then again Carroll contradicts Humpty Dumpty's interpretation in other explanations he gave elsewhere (though AFIAK this particular line wasn't part of that other explanation).