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<H4>By <a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com">Mike Orr</a></H4>
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<P> A co-worker brought to my attention this little link:
<A HREF=http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~damian/TPC/1999/Coy/>
Coy: Like Carp, Only Prettier</A>. It's a Perl module described
by its author, Damian Conway, thusly:
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When a program dies
what you need is a moment
of serenity.
The Coy.pm
module brings tranquillity
to your debugging.
The module alters
the behaviour of die and
warn (and croak and carp).
Like Carp.pm,
Coy reports errors from the
caller's point-of-view.
But it prefaces
the bad news of failure with
a soothing haiku.
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<P> Not a bad idea.
<P> Wait, it gets better. The
<A HREF=http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~damian/TPC/1999/Coy/Paper.html>
description of the haiku generator algorithm</A> is itself written in haiku.
<P> The paper cites
<A HREF=http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/chal/1998/02/10chal2.html>
a Salon Magazine contest</A> for haiku error messages. These are my favorite
entries, although all of them are worth a read:
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A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
-- David J. Liszewski
Printer not ready.
Could be a fatal error.
Have a pen handy?
-- Pat Davis
The Web site you seek
cannot be located but
endless others exist
-- Joy Rothke
Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
-- Peter Rothman
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<P> All this got me thinking: does anybody have any Linux poetry they'd
like to share? Not necessarily haiku--any kind of poetry. There are lots of
geeky UNIX things floating about, but nothing specifically Linux-related.
(Or is my memory getting dim?) Maybe someday I'll try writing a Linux sonnet.
<P> P.S. Another co-worker sent me a link to a
<A HREF=http://www.asciimation.co.nz/>
Star Wars move done in ASCII animation (asciimation)</A>. It requires Java.
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