Ph: Love: Fun: Programmer's Love Defined Poem by Brian Johnston

Ph: Love: Fun: Programmer's Love Defined



(Proving Once And For All Time That Love Is Not Binary)

Definition of Variables:
X, PATH, JOHN, JOHNJOHN, MARSHA, MARSHAMARSHA, ALPHA, OMEGA

Initial Values:
SET X=0, SET PATH = 1, SET JOHN =.5, JOHNJOHN = 1000,
MARSHA =.5, MARSHAMARSHA = 1000

Program Start:
LOVE101: LET ALPHA = JOHN + MARSHA; John And Marsha Equals 1 means that the couple feels like they are united. However John's and Marsha's values range from 0 to 1.
LET OMEGA= JOHNJOHN - MARSHAMARSHA; John Without Marsha Equals 0 (and visa versa) means that the couple wants to stay together.

LOOP1: LET X= X+1
DOES ALPHA = 1, THEN CONTINUE, ELSE END
DOES OMEGA = O, THEN CONTINUE, ELSE END

FLIPFLOP: DOES PATH = 1, THEN CONTINUE, ELSE PATH2

PATH1: LET JOHN = FUNCTION (RANDOM NUMBER 0-1)
LET JOHNJOHN = FUNCTION (RANDOM NUMBER)
LET MARSHA = FUNCTION (MARSHA'S UNITARY CHOICE 0-1) *
LET MARSHAMARSHA = FUNCTION (MARSHAMARSHA's NULL CHOICE) *
FLIPFLOP1: SET PATH = 2
GO TO CHECKTIME

PATH2: LET MARSHA = FUNCTION (RANDOM NUMBER 0-1)
LET MARSHAMARSHA = FUNCTION (RANDOM NUMBER)
LET JOHN = FUNCTION (JOHN'S UNITARY CHOICE 0-1) *
LET JOHNJOHN = FUNCTION (JOHNJOHN'S NULL CHOICE) *
FLIPFLOP2: SET PATH = 1

CHECKTIME: DOES X = INFINITY** THEN END, ELSE GO TO LOVE101
END: FULL STOP

Thursday, July 24, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: Love
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Brian Johnston
July 21,2014

Poet/Programmer's Notes:

1. * AND ** If there is a fly in the ointment, (a bug in the program) this is it!
There is some humor in the setting of the initial values here too. Please note that the initial values for both John and Marsha are less than zero, and yet both JohnJohn and MarshaMarsha are batting 1000! ☺
The moral of this program/blank verse poem is….
KISS (AND OFTEN)

2. I have mentioned before that, to me at least, a ‘model of reality' presented in Physics can be very much like a poem. I think that I have proven here that a computer program can also be very poem like! : -)

For those not familiar with the acronym, KISS means 'Keep It Simple Stupid! ' This is not some veiled sexual reference! Heck, we are talking about 'Programmers' here! ☺

3. Is there anyone besides me who remembers a satire of soap opera melodramatics, 'John & Marsha'' consisted of a man and a woman (both voices performed by Stan Freberg in 1951) declaring their passion for each other by repeating their names over and over while organ music played in the background? Check it out if you can!
COMMENTS OF THE POEM

A compelling and creative mathemization of marriage. Very scholarly!

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