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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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  2. 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...

  3. 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).