For those checking out the ineptech site, please don't miss the poetry compiler joke! It's the bit I'm the most proud of. It's in an unlinkable modal so actually I'll just paste it here:
Upon a stack of bits, about so tall, // Boolean[] isprime = new Boolean[n];
just think, O traveller, what we could do // Arrays.fill(isprime, true);
if every other bit was set to false // for (int i = 4; i < n; i+=2)
beginning with (but not including) two? // isprime[i] = false;
Now take two lowly numbers, A and B // for (int a = 3; a < n; a += 2)
that equal three and two. What would happen // {
if they, by twos and ones respectively, // for (int b = 2; a*b < n; b++)
were incremented in a nested fashion, // {
And if we falsified, at every turn, // isprime[a*b] = false;
the value offset by A groups of Bs? // }
Then to the aether let those bits return, // }
to fly back home to Eratosthenes! // return isprime;
(You may have figured out that I put a lot more time in to the silly programmer jokes in the fake site than in to the app. Wonder why it never took off...)
The fact that you made it a poem, reminds me of some extempore poems that I made up as a kid - inspired by reading a book that my uncle bought me as a gift - The Golden Book of Fun and Nonsense [2]. It had a lot of funny poems, limericks, etc. in it.
Here are two I made up at the time:
Poem 1:
Mr. Jolly had a brolly [1]
Its handle was made of silver, and its body was made of gold.
And Mr. Jolly used the brolly when it was very cold.
[1] Brolly is a Brit term for umbrella.
Poem 2:
I climbed up a mountain.
There I saw a fountain.
One, two, three, four, five!
In it I'd like to dive.
Go ahead, laugh. It's meant to be funny and silly.
I'll also mention a few good ones I read in that book:
