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Haiku from SAS R&D staff

First prompts are silent.
Subsequent prompts loud and clear.
Now all prompts are heard.

Poem from R&D staff?
Yes. Rhyming sonnets were shakespeare-like complex;
they wrote Japanese haiku, showed as above.

The SAS R&D staff should complete some paper work in defects system before changing a code. They use informal descriptive language(HAIKUUU!) in the early stage. Chris Hemedinger, a senior software engineer at SAS, collected some haikus in his blog to show the humor side of SAS R&D staff. It’s interesting to cite one of the most famous haikus by Matsuo Bashō for comparison:

Old pond
a frog jumps
the sound of water

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10. December 2008 | misc, SAS | Comments (0)

Happy grow up

Happy hearts and happy faces,
Happy play in grassy places–
-Good and Bad Children by Robert Louis Stevenson

I read this verse in W. Bennentt’s popular book, The Book of Virtues, during the bus-to-company time this morning. It’s interesting to read Stevenson’s Treasure Island, of course in Chinese edition when I was young.

Yes, it sounds “uncool”, –I went to work, with technical documents in my bag, and read a for-children book. A grown-up with childlike innocence? dare not say. I just read the book to fresh my mind and my English.

It snows little Beijing.

10. December 2008 | misc | Comments (0)

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