Ben Halpern

Posted on Apr 19, 2018

Give me your best programming haiku

#discuss

Discussion (56)

Ian Johnson • Apr 19 '18 • Edited on Apr 19

My code fails.
I do not know why.
My code works.
I do not know why.

😜

Pierre Bouillon • Apr 19 '18 • Edited on Apr 19

>>> import this
Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than *right* now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!

Alex Alberto • Mar 11

include

using namespace std;

int main()
{
cout << "Beautiful is better than ugly." << endl;
cout << "Explicit is better than implicit." << endl;
cout << "Simple is better than complex." << endl;
cout << "Complex is better than complicated." << endl;
cout << "Flat is better than nested." << endl;
cout << "Sparse is better than dense." << endl;
cout << "Readability counts." << endl;
cout << "Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules." << endl;
cout << "Although practicality beats purity." << endl;
cout << "Errors should never pass silently." << endl;
cout << "Unless explicitly silenced." << endl;
cout << "In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess." << endl;
cout << "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." << endl;
cout << "Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch." << endl;
cout << "Now is better than never." << endl;
cout << "never is often better than right now." << endl;
cout << "If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea." << endl;
cout << "If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea" << endl;
cout << "Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those" << endl;

return 0;

}
code with C++

Max Antonucci • Apr 19 '18

Think I'm a genius
Bend computers to my will
I just google stuff

Ryan Palo • Apr 19 '18

coding is the best
don’t let it make you feel dumb
keep calm, debug on

Also

we are all friends here
there is room for all people
but... tabs are for chumps

Paul • Apr 19 '18

I will fight you man
tabs are better than spaces
refrigerator

Ryan Palo • Apr 20 '18 • Edited on Apr 20

I can't tell a lie
your word skills are impressive
now I think we're friends

Ryan Palo • Apr 19 '18

Sorry, I can’t stop!

python: less is more
ruby: devs should be happy
what langs do you love?

Tiago Padrela Amaro • Apr 19 '18 • Edited on Apr 19

No code runs faster than no code.
No code has fewer bugs than no code.
No code uses less memory than no code.
No code is easier to understand than no code.

Mike Perham

Bhupesh Varshney 👾 • Dec 8 '18

True af

Jorge Suarez • Apr 19 '18

what is with this code?
oh my, looks like I wrote it
what was I thinking?

Max Antonucci • Apr 19 '18

I'm a nice guy, but
write CSS in JS?
I'll lose my damn mind.

Paul • Apr 19 '18

That second line. Nice!

Mike • Apr 20 '18

All time favourite:

Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist.

Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.

Program aborting:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.

Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.

Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.

Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.

Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.

A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.

Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.

You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.

Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.

Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.

Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

mamba0076 • Dec 28 '21

All of the above - Has it been that long since I laughed at my computer? ! lmao
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred. - defo 1st level engineering

Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
loooooooool

Phil Ashby • Apr 20 '18

Ah that reminds me, need to put back my 404 page - thanks :)

Colin Principe • Apr 20 '18

Why doesn't this work?
I've checked syntax ninety times!
Oh, missed bracket.

Alex Lohr • Apr 19 '18

You find the right names
avoid off-by-one errors
and document well

Colin Principe • Apr 20 '18

Hold my breath, click "Build";
All tests display green checkmarks
Git add, commit, push

mamba0076 • Dec 28 '21 • Edited on Dec 28

so thats how it works...

Johnny Reina • Apr 19 '18

Why fight good standards?
Save your mind for real problems!
Just use Prettier.

gillybops • May 6 '18

Happy to be here
Learning code is fun
This is my first haiku

Diana Fernandez • Dec 8 '18

Tester found a bug
"It works fine in my local"
Wrong answer, dude

Nimmo • Apr 21 '18 • Edited on Apr 21

Code belongs to us
And never only to me
Collaboration

Namir • Apr 20 '18

Make it work,
Make it readeble,
Make it efficient.

Tiago Marques • Apr 24 '18

"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live"
― John Woods

André Porres • Jun 3 '18

Why you need semicolon?,
It so much pointless,
Without brackets you fail,
You report a problem.

Why you dont get the type?,
You must be dynamic,
So many written lines,
Almost say nothing.

Give me some readable program,
Not this spaghetti,
Why are you not like python?,
Why java? Why?.

Andrew (he/him) • Dec 9 '18

(Not a haiku but) a classic:

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Unexpected '{' at line 32

Source unknown.

Max Antonucci • Apr 19 '18 • Edited on Apr 19

Make your site look good,
fit on phones, have good colors.
CSS is Awesome

Gergő Móricz • Apr 19 '18

i just developed
the most advanced AI
some of these are tabs

Hasheen DeBerry • Dec 8 '18 • Edited on Dec 8

UI is garbled
When open in this browser
Open in Chrome: it’s cool

Ben Wolman • Apr 20 '18

I like JavaScript
It does not reciprocate
Without a "return"

Fris • Dec 8 '18

decide to update my old codes
stare at the codes
keep staring
rm *

Tony Baines • Dec 8 '18

I have a problem.
Maybe regex can help me?
Oh dear, two problems.

Camilla Santiago • Apr 20 '18

what's full-stack, really?
good at back-end not enough
i feel down lately.

Ronald Ngoda • Apr 20 '18

If it works, don't touch it!!

Pedro Otero Prada • Apr 21 '18

If you don't know why it works it will touch you. With its teeth. On your ass.

Bhupesh Varshney 👾 • Dec 8 '18

😂😂😂

Matt Bagni • Dec 8 '18

First solve the problem,
Then start coding.

(I might have read this on dev)

Chandra • May 24

I cannot face my Code that’s fallen down on me
So, if you see QA Team please ask them help to me
Tell QA Team about my Code that’s slowly dying
Say I can’t stop myself from crying

Every day I wake up, then I start to break up
Lonely is a Developer without QA Team
Every day I start out, then I cry my heart out
Lonely is a Developer without QA Team