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Thank you to those who occasionally post non-hacking related material here, and everyone else who votes it up. Keeps the place interesting ;)



I dissent from the implication that this poem is non-hacking-related. It is arguably not a hack (though it is certainly a product of ingenuity and achieves a large effect with little resources, but I think other factors weigh against it) but there is no human activity unrelated to, specifically, this poem; and hacking is a human activity, perhaps the most human of all activities.


Who here has never been up late hacking on something and thought "but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep"?


Clearly it was posted here so that we could criticize his work and point out all of the places where <<American English>> fails in comparison to C++ in conveying effective meaning.




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