I hereby challenge you to a programming poetry smackdown.
Kelly Vaughn

Kelly Vaughn @kelly

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I hereby challenge you to a programming poetry smackdown.

Publish Date: Jul 3 '19
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Give me your best poem. Here are two of my favorites:

Comments 23 total

  • Petry DeChamp Richardson
    Petry DeChamp RichardsonJul 3, 2019

    Brain brain gone away, these bugs will forever stay.

    It’s broke it, it’s fixed, who knows what I did.

  • Andy Lamb
    Andy LambJul 3, 2019

    There once was a curious person,
    Who wanted learn of recursion.
    They searched Wikipedia,
    It couldn't be easier.
    For recursion, please see 'recursion'.

  • Tyler V.
    Tyler V.Jul 3, 2019

    Might have to revisit this thread, but for now:

  • Davyd McColl
    Davyd McCollJul 3, 2019

    (not totally original, but I've actually used this for a 404 page):
    The end point you seek
    cannot be located but
    endless others exist

  • Brandon Dimperio
    Brandon DimperioJul 3, 2019

    Roses are red, Violet is blue. I learned F# and you can too.

  • Andrew Brown 🇨🇦
    Andrew Brown 🇨🇦Jul 3, 2019

    Control+C does not work for me

    shebang shebang
    my eyes hurt from typing
    shebang shebang
    my mind hurts from thinking
    shebang shebang
    my butt hurts from sitting
    shebang shebang
    my heart hurts shes leaving
    shebang shebang
    I'm coding instead of sleeping
    shebang shebang
    

    Also for those who may not know what's a shebang (!#)

  • Aadi Bajpai
    Aadi BajpaiJul 3, 2019

    I do not work out
    Stuff doesn't work out for me
    This is not a haiku

  • Paul O'Neill
    Paul O'NeillJul 3, 2019
  • Ryan Rousseau
    Ryan RousseauJul 3, 2019

    alloc, dealloc
    managing memory, cake
    segmentation fault

  • Andrew McKeever
    Andrew McKeeverJul 3, 2019

    Why is this broken?
    Maybe I'll run it again?
    Well, why did that work?

  • Fyodor
    FyodorJul 4, 2019

    I don't want to provoke you
    but as a matter of fact
    Angular is better
    than React...

  • Kirill Shestakov
    Kirill ShestakovJul 4, 2019

    Begin your day, feels okay,
    Click-clack, fix a bug,
    const and var, review a PR,
    And deploy the front-end at the very end.

    Time to go home and disappear,
    [INSERT YOUR LIFE HERE]

  • Frankie
    FrankieJul 4, 2019

    How does it work?
    I will open the black box
    It's written in C

  • simo
    simoJul 4, 2019

    Classes, Abstractions, and DRY - things that made me look clever
    Closures, Curry, and Composition - things that made my whole life better

  • Frederik 👨‍💻➡️🌐 Creemers
    Frederik 👨‍💻➡️🌐 CreemersJul 4, 2019

    Roses are #F00
    Violets are #00F
    I've coded myself into a corner,
    because hex codes don't rhyme;

  • Daragh Byrne
    Daragh ByrneJul 4, 2019

    Haha this is great, in my spare time I write non-programming poems :)

  • Kekee
    KekeeJul 5, 2019

    Day 1:
    Beep beep..ohh do not trip
    Sever starting...
    Seee...you got whipped
    No more stacking..

    Say no more. Just an exception!

    Pheew!...I got logged out
    No more working.

  • Hugues Tennier
    Hugues TennierJul 5, 2019
  • John Paul Ada
    John Paul AdaJul 9, 2019

    Bookmarking this for the day a brilliant programming poem idea pops up in my head.

  • Dan Conn
    Dan ConnJul 9, 2019

    Roses are ReNullPointerException

  • theCuriousOne
    theCuriousOneJul 11, 2019

    (first attempt)

    Is this the real life?
    Is this just fantasy?
    Caught in a while loop,
    No escape from infinity.

    Open your eyes,
    Look up to the screen and see,
    I'm just a small bug, I'm here to irate,
    Because I'm easy come, hard to go,
    Little deep, little more,
    Any way the code flows doesn't really matter to me, to me.

    Mama, just quit my job,
    Put a gun against my head,
    Pull the trigger, blow my head.
    Mama, I can't do this no more,
    And now I've gone and thrown it all away.

    Mama, ooh,
    Didn't mean to make you cry,
    If I'm not back again at this time tomorrow,
    Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters.

    Too late, my time has come,
    Sends shivers down my spine,
    Body's aching all the time.
    Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go,
    Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth.

    Mama, ooh (any way the state flows),
    I don't wanna code,
    I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all.

    I see a little silhouetto of a wiz,
    Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fix-at-to?
    Thunderbolt and lightning,
    Very, very frightening me.
    (Click) Tap.
    (Click) Tap-Tap,
    Tap-Tap Taaaaap
    Magnifico-o-o-o-o.

    I'm just a poor coder, no code loves me.
    They are a code wiz, with great skills,
    Spare me my life from this monstrosity.

    Easy come, hard to go, will you please run my code?
    Bismillah! No, it will not build nor run. (Stupid bug !)
    Bismillah! It will still not run. (Stupid bug!)
    Bismillah! It will still not run.. (Stupid bug!)
    It will still not run.. (Stupid bug!)
    Never ever give up (Never, never, never, never let it go)
    Oh oh oh oh
    No, no, no, no, no, no, no
    Oh, mama mia, mama mia (Mama mia, let it go.)
    Beelzebub has send a code demon for me, for me, for me.

    So you think you can annoy me and just lie to me?
    So you think you can compile or just leave me be?
    Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby,
    Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here.

    (Ooooh, ooh yeah, ooh yeah)

    Nothing really matters,
    Anyone can see,
    Nothing really matters,
    Nothing really matters to me.

    Any way the code blows.

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