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Wednesday, 20 September, 2006 by Deathkin
#  a treeI think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
        [ Trees - Joyce Kilmer ]

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Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers
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or a corridor (treeI think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
        [ Trees - Joyce Kilmer ]

Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team
Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers
NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details.
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@ "That gets me thinking: everyone knows trees are better than linked lists..."
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 |........|  |  |   
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     |-... ........ 
@ "So why is the DevTeam still storing my items on a linked list?"
----   |   |+------ 
|  +   |   |        
|  |.  |   |-+-     
----...--+-|  |  -+-
 |........|  |  |   
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@ What do you want to zap? [w or ?*]
For what do you     
wish? a B-treeI think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
        [ Trees - Joyce Kilmer ]

Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team
Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers
NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details.
| |a | |-+- ----aaa--+-| | -+- |aaaaaaaa| | | |aa#aaaaa----aa| |-aaaa{aa@aaaaa| -- |aaaa#aaaaa--- |-aaa aaaaaaaa
@ "TDTToE!"
A lame programmer's comic


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Comments

. September 20, 2006 00:18
First comment: 7 December, 2005 48 comments written
Hahaha. Very good.
shel September 20, 2006 00:19
First comment: 19 August, 2005 107 comments written
a comic for lame programmers?
Jack Simth September 20, 2006 01:28
First comment: 3 January, 2005 59 comments written
Hey now, my legs work very well, thank you.

Oh, and it's mostly a complexity issue; B-Trees are great when you have truely colossal amounts of data to sort through. With the number of items Nethack is expected to deal with? Pretty much a non-issue... especially as most the time you'll be either working with an item currently in inventory (limited to 52 items due to the menu system) or you'll want to be looking through everything from beginning to some arbitrary point anyway, so the linked list structure is just fine.
SomeoneElse September 20, 2006 01:40
First comment: 11 September, 2006 143 comments written
I don't get it much. I suppose if I got what it meant, I'd like it, so I'm not going to vote. Also, you missed saying that the # was also a sink and a cloudI wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
        [ I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, by William Wordsworth ]

Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team
Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers
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, as well as a corridor and a treeI think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
        [ Trees - Joyce Kilmer ]

Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team
Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers
NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details.
.
  September 20, 2006 03:37
First comment: 1 April, 2004 431 comments written
I'm not even going to pretend I have a clue.
Zephyrus September 20, 2006 04:31
First comment: 20 September, 2006 2 comments written
The #'s are pretty clearly trees, since Dudley's on a recognizable minetown level.

I guess there could be some ambituity with the a's, but it's a pretty straightforward pun.
GreyKnight September 20, 2006 05:54
First comment: 24 March, 2006 48 comments written
I got it, I just didn't find it very amusing...
Janos September 20, 2006 08:03
First comment: 18 August, 2005 40 comments written
I don' get it at all.
Eskimo September 20, 2006 08:36
First comment: 14 April, 2004 166 comments written
Very programmer specific which is clearly indicated by the no clue/excellent votes lol. Since there are code-specific joke threads in rgrn too ok for this time :)
L September 20, 2006 08:53
First comment: 10 February, 2005 285 comments written
Aack! Obscure humour that I shouldn't find funny yet do!
  September 20, 2006 14:28
First comment: 1 April, 2004 431 comments written
This' excellent. More programming jokes pls :D/
randi September 20, 2006 14:29
First comment: 20 September, 2006 1 comments written
B-TreeI think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
        [ Trees - Joyce Kilmer ]

Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team
Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers
NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details.
= "BeeThis giant variety of its useful normal cousin normally
appears in small groups, looking for raw material to produce
the royal jelly needed to feed their queen. On rare
occasions, one may stumble upon a bee-hive, in which the
queen bee is being well provided for, and guarded against
intruders.

Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team
Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers
NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details.
TreeI think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
        [ Trees - Joyce Kilmer ]

Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team
Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers
NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details.
" Get it now?
Fathead September 21, 2006 23:24
First comment: 1 April, 2006 1136 comments written
Goodness sakes.
Ristipisto-Risto September 22, 2006 10:10
First comment: 25 January, 2006 52 comments written
Really cool. Both programming and word plays. Love it.
rpresser September 29, 2006 02:40
First comment: 6 October, 2005 51 comments written
Carrying a B-treeI think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
        [ Trees - Joyce Kilmer ]

Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team
Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers
NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details.
should make searching faster.
AnMaster October 23, 2006 13:58
First comment: 22 October, 2006 26 comments written
LOL!
Grognor April 19, 2007 08:11
First comment: 4 April, 2007 1161 comments written
You know what I hate? Serendipity.

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