Life: Lin's Birthday

Happy Birthday Lin!

I hope you are having a great day. I won't mention how *old* you are.. I know you'd kill me if I did!

I bought some flowers for her, they look like this:

Programming: Coding Is Like Poetry

I've always enjoyed poetry, and as a programmer, I've often noted the similarities between them. Today I noticed an interesting chat on the CodeProject forum about this very thing.

The mental process behind writing poetry and code is the same.
You have to be able to abstract reality into a simple model and be able to transfer that abstraction into concrete code - ie. your natural language or a programming language.

That sums it up nicely. Thanks goes to Rui Sousa for that one.

Normally, I have this discussion when I've had a few pints at the local, so I've wondered if it was just the brew that has me thinking like that. It's good to see some others thinking the same way.

Similarly,

Good code is like good Haiku.
It is concise, descriptive, and elegant.

Good Haiku, like good code is never contrived. It is also minimialsist without compromising its descriptive qualities

using (Haiku)
{
Writing code, like Haiku:
Elegant within confines
That limit and free.
}

Followed up with a nice Haiku from BluePineNeedles!!

I'll have to keep these points in mind for that next time when I'm challenged to a debate!

Tamagotchi Pokies

It seems that South Australia's anti-gambling king has found a new target of his angst. According to this article he has discovered that those kids toys called Tamagotchi have a gambling element within them.

I don't see how playing the pokies at 6 years old is good for a child's development. I for one don't see how it's good for anyone, but then, I don't play and I've never won 'big'..

The cynic in me can't help but wonder who funded this inclusion? Gambling cartels preparing for their future income streams..?