#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