#songsInCode

This was a really silly meme circulating on Twitter exactly 10 years ago. The idea is to write song lyrics in pseudocode. I seem to have been a little obsessed with it.

Let’s hope you can still decode some of these. (And for the record I was not the only person getting a little carried away with this topic.)

for ( tree in trees )
[museum addObject:tree];
museum.admission = 1.5;#songsincode

— Steve Hayman (@shayman) August 20, 2009

if ( you.mind() != previousValue )
[you.line addObject:self atIndex:0];#songsincode

— Steve Hayman (@shayman) August 20, 2009

if([u.plans containsObject:@"motor west"]) {
[u take:self.way]; self.way.quality=2^32 -1;
[u setKicks: setuid(0)+0x66];
} #songsincode

— Steve Hayman (@shayman) August 21, 2009

for ( thing in she.does() )
thing.magic = true;#songsincode

— Steve Hayman (@shayman) August 20, 2009

And of course I decided I had a typo on one, and had to correct it later -

/* v1.1 - fix syntax error */
for (i = 0; i < (answer == no ? 2 : 3); i++ )
knock( answer == no ? pipe : ceiling );
/* #songsincode */

— Steve Hayman (@shayman) August 21, 2009