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> Title: As Poets, We All Write Great Code
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> It's not that the senders don't plan
> To make the best limerick they can --
> Full of gossip and rumor,
> With a great sense of humor,
> But practically none of them scan!
Minor irony is a beautiful thing, I must say.
The odd thing about this hailstorm of limericks is that the scansion of most most would have been quite easy to fix, including that of your own. A little poetic licence ("lim'rick", "rumor,/a great") is the key to well-formed doggerel, but it seems that among developers grammatical and technical correctness is more important than prosodic correctness.
I wonder if there is a grad school lit thesis in there somewhere.
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Uche Ogbuji Principal Consultant
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