Geek Poem

I found this amazing programmer’s poem today and thought I’d share it. The idea is to read each character as it would be read if by a programmer. For example the character ‘<’ would be read as ‘Walla’, and “!” as Bang. See the translation below if you have no idea what I’m talking about.

The text of the poem follows:

       <>!*''#
       ^"`$$-
       !*=@$_
       %*<>~#4
       &[]../
       |{,,SYSTEM HALTED

The poem can only be appreciated by reading
it aloud, to wit:

       Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
       Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,
       Bang splat equal at dollar under-score,
       Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,
       Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
       Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma
       CRASH.

SOURCE: INFOCUS magazine. Original authors, Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese of Calvin College & Seminary of Grand Rapids, MI. [pligg]