Random thoughts on technology, business, books, and everything in between jpc2.org/name/poetry <blockquote> <p>How do I love <a href="http://www.scalactic.org/user_guide/OrAndEvery">Or</a>? Let me <a href="http://doc.scalatest.org/2.2.6/#org.scalactic.Accumulation">Accumulate</a> the ways.<br /> I love thee to the depth and breadth and height<br /> My IDE can reach, when feeling uncompiled<br /> For the Ends of Concise Code and ideal Control Flow.<br /> I love thee to the level of every day’s<br /> Most quiet need, a quiet workspace and thorough documentation.<br /> I love thee freely, as my functions strive for <a href="http://doc.scalatest.org/2.2.6/#org.scalactic.Good">Good</a>.<br /> I love thee purely, as they capture errors with <a href="http://doc.scalatest.org/2.2.6/#org.scalactic.Bad">Bad</a>.<br /> I love thee with the passion put to use<br /> In my old griefs with <a href="http://danielwestheide.com/blog/2013/01/02/the-neophytes-guide-to-scala-part-7-the-either-type.html">Either</a>, and with my childhood’s faith.<br /> I love thee with a love I seemed to lose<br /> With my lost saints of Java! – I love thee with the breath,<br /> Smiles, tears, of all my past programs! – and, if <a href="https://twitter.com/bvenners">Venners</a> choose,<br /> I shall but love thee better after sys.exit(0).</p> </blockquote> <p>A modern interpretation of <a href="http://imaginativeliteratureforeccentrics.blogspot.com/2008/03/sonnet-43.html">Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet 43</a> inspired by the estimable <a href="http://www.scalactic.org/user_guide/OrAndEvery">Scalactic</a> library.</p> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000 jpc2.org/2016/07/18/an-ode-to-or.html jpc2.org/2016/07/18/an-ode-to-or.html