The ClarionMag Limerick Contest

Posted September 5 2002

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There's been a spate of rhyming in the SoftVelocity chat newsgroup, ranging from doggerel to limericks to haiku. Some range! Favoring the limericking crowd, Richard Rogers is throwing down the following challenge, hosted and judged by Clarion Magazine.

Here's an offer to you gals and guys.
The Sylkie will offer a prize
to the best loop or case
with a limerick base
and we'll hope that there aren't any ties!

The winning entry will receive either a license for App Init, or a cool little notes database, from Richard. The rules are as follows:

• The limerick itself must be compilable Clarion source code, in the form of an IF, LOOP, or CASE structure.
• Words to be used can be declared (apart from the verse) as equates, data labels, calls to external routines, etc.
• Points given for actual usefulness of the code, rhyme, meter, double-entendre (but please remember this is a family magazine), etc.
• Line continuation characters are considered punctuation.
• You may only use a comment on the last line.

An Example (you can do better than this, right?):

  DATA
IntoTheBrew  LONG(0)
Land        LONG(0)
Sea         EQUATE(100)
Water      EQUATE(5)
Tea          EQUATE(5)
Sugar           EQUATE(1)
  CODE
Loop until Land = Sea
   Land = Water + Tea 
   IntoTheBrew = |
   Sugar + 2  
END ! Of Loop and an exit for me

The contest ends midnight GMT, September 8, 2002.

This contest is now closed. See who won!