Subject: Python limericks (was Re: Text-to-speech)
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.python.general
Date: 2005-03-21 06:52:15 GMT (6 years, 47 weeks, 1 day, 8 hours and 42 minutes ago)
Steve Holden said unto the world upon 2005-03-20 16:18:
<SNIP>
> Since it's PyCon week, I will offer a prize of $100 to the best (in my
> opinion) limerick about Python posted to this list (with a Cc: to
> pycon <at> python.org) before midday on Friday. The prize money will be my
> own, so there are no other rules. I will post my judgment when the PyCon
> nonsense has died down a little, but the winner will be read before the
> entire PyCon audience. Get to it!
>
> regards
> Steve
Homage to the Interactive Interpreter (with apologies to all the monks
out there):
My dear Guido dared once to combine
Out of objects, command of a line
There was nary a brace.
In their place? Some whitespace!
And cast many their Perl before swine.
(I agree that the idiom played upon in the last line is obverted, but
but plead poetic license 
Best to all,
Brian vdB
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