Code critique poetry

June 18, 2016 @ 6:26 am · Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

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Today's xkcd:

Mouseover title: "It's like you tried to define a formal grammar based on fragments of a raw database dump from the QuickBooks file of a company that's about to collapse in an accounting scandal."

June 18, 2016 @ 6:26 am · Filed by under Linguistics in the comics


3 Comments

  1. Rodger C said,

    June 18, 2016 @ 10:10 am

    Why am I thinking "Alanis Morrisette"?

  2. Jerry Friedman said,

    June 18, 2016 @ 11:02 am

    I believe her hyperboles have reached their asymptotes.

  3. DWalker said,

    June 20, 2016 @ 2:04 pm

    @Jerry Friedman: You win the Internets! That was funny. Asymptotic hyperbole.

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