eating cucumbers without permission...

Hiding the hard work in a magic number:

(1..100).map {|i| srand(1781773465) if (i%15)==1; [i, "Fizz", "Buzz", "FizzBuzz"][rand(4)]}

A language for creating generative art.

Some people, when confronted with a problem think "I know, I'll make it distributed!" Now they have 2 million problems.

So I decided to take the abstraction up another notch and make the core of my interpreter be an ASCII diagram of logic gates.

6 (OCR!) and 8 (apple + blue = ?) are my favourites.

yield 1 == U BORROW CHEEZBURGER, heh.

HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
PLZ OPEN FILE "LOLCATS.TXT"?
    AWSUM THX
        VISIBLE FILE
    O NOES
        INVISIBLE "ERROR!"
KTHXBYE

There's nothing like a programming challenge to make you realize just how stupid you are!

I think that the biggest mistake people make is latching onto the first idea that comes to them and trying to do that. It really comes to a thing that my folks taught me about money. Don't buy something unless you've wanted it three times. Similarly, don't throw in a feature when you first think of it. Think if there's a way to generalize it, think if it should be generalized. Sometimes you can generalize things too much. I think like the things in Scheme were generalized too much. There is a level of abstraction beyond which people don't want to go. Take a good look at what you want to do, and try to come up with the long-term lazy way, not the short-term lazy way.

It's looking more enticing as a platform every day.