Here lies /^v.+b$/i
After I've gone In a melancholy mood, this week. Went back home to have a look at Dad's bench. He was a Classics scholar, actually; went up to Cambridge and everything. And so above his name and dates on the brass plaque screwed into the wood, instead of "He loved this place" or something equally fatuous, it says: ORE STABIT …
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errno
ESRCH
(Or, for those with some kind of belief in reanimation: EAGAIN)
Hex
+++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++
logic
Temporal logic is surely the granite of state programming. But it is too hard to work with.
So, in honour of the writer and programmer a first-order, punning eulogy: Verity ⇒ ¬⊥
Took me a while...
I had to stare at it for a while before it hit me:
ORE STABIT FORTIS ARARE PLACET ORE STAT
ORESTABITFORTISARAREPLACETORESTAT
O REST A BIT FOR TIS A RARE PLACE TO REST AT
Duh... I feel stupid it took me so long.
This is not the title you're looking for
Just paint the top of the gravesite blue.
Then you'll have your own Blue Screen of Death.
MINE'S THE BLACK HOODIE
If we are being mean ...
... then I would, I admit, prefer:
WE SHALL ALL DIE, MR. RINCEWIND
... tho my name ain't Rincewind.
B seems perfect
We are talking about last words and being dead after all
"main( ) {
extrn a, b, c;
putchar(a); putchar(b); putchar(c); putchar('!*n');
}
a 'hell';
b 'o, w';
c 'orld';
And now for something completely different....
Verity: What happen ?
Heart: Somebody set up us the heart attack.
Brain: We get signal.
Verity: What !
Brain: Main screen turn on.
Verity: It's you !!
DEATH: How are you Verity !!
DEATH: All your life are belong to us.
well probably this..
while (true) {}
// for limbo forever.
NOP
Really, out of 147 comments so far there is not one that simply suggests a simple NOP? If you are picky about it, you can put a jump after it.
As always, if you fail to describe something, do it in assembly. Here for Atmel AVR 8bit microcontrollers.
0000 NOP No operation
CFFE RJMP PC-0x0001 Relative jump
But just NOP has a nice ring to it, I must say. Short, to the point and looks a bit like RIP.
Myles na gCopaleen + numbers
Myles na gCopaleen quoted a headstone that went as follows
hic jacet 1 5 4
0 4 1 2 8
0 1 4 2 0
... sadly the rest escapes my memory. The above translates (probably) as:
Here lies one fifer
Nothing for one to hate
Nothing for one to love
...
Whether the stonemason could carve out the letters with one hand while updating his facebook account with th eother is not recorded.
(A pint, because "a pint of plain is your only man".)
I'd like this
011010010110011000100000011110010110111101110101001
000000110001101100001011011100010000001110010011001
01011000010110010000100000011101000110100001101001
011100110010110000100000011110010110111101110101001
00000011000010111001001100101001000000111001101110
100011000010110111001100100011010010110111001100111
001000000110111101101110001000000110110101111001001
0000001100110011001010110010101110100
The lfs are el reg's...
This programme(r)
is no longer responding and has been closed down.
We apologise if any work was lost.
Would you like to send an error report ?
No
That would imply sending a message to an object that has been garbage collected.
Segmentation fault!
What language?
Looks like just about everyone has been mentioned here:
BASIC, FORTRAN, ALGOL (68), Pascal, Forth, IBM JCL, C, C++ (and derivatives), shell, and others.
The only one I don't see is: SNOBOL (long live strings!).
But I must agree that the best solution is: Brainfuck!
I'd prefer to use bash script
echo "Goodbye, Cruel World"
It's elegant, simple, and has the added bonus of implying a ghostly echoing voice.
My Epitaph
{
Existance.Live();
}
Catch(FatalException ex)
{
Console.Writeline(“O Bugger!”);
}
@Herby
Not quite all - no Python, for instance. (Or Occam2, after the recent article about Transputers). But it's rather difficult to do white-space-significant code on a forum which removes leading whitespace from lines...
Inform
No-one's mentioned Inform. Probably for very good reason. But nonetheless, my offering (and I hope the comments system doesn't mangle things too much):
"The Life and Times of Verity Stob" by Maksim Rukov
This Mortal Coil is a room. "Not a bad place, really. You should probably not leave."
The player is a woman called Verity Stob.
Instead of going nowhere in This Mortal Coil, end the story saying "You have died."
You can play it online if you fancy (if I can post URLs).
http://iplayif.com/?story=http%3A//members.iinet.net.au/~nichevo/zcode/stob.zblorb
shirley...
the epitaph should be
"yes, we tried turning her off and on again"
How about something like
COMEFROM DUST
GOTO DUST
:DUST
If someone fancies reformatting it in a language that actually supports COMEFROM I'll be happy.
Can't believe I forgot...
echo Oh my god, it's full of stars!
Dos?
What about -
@echo off
REM Check for heartbeat
:ALIVE
GOTO LIFE
IF NOT EXIST HEARTBEAT ==0 GOTO ALIVE
REM No heartbeat
END
:LIFE
REM carbon based life functions in here
GOTO ALIVE
What Do You Think?
It's assumed one's epitaph is influenced by their view on the nature of life, and death. Unfortunately we readers aren't privy to those innermost of your details, so it's hard to be truly helpful.
That leaves two main schools of thought: do you continue, or do you not?
Brevity is also encouraged, for some strange reason. Perhaps the cost of cutting stone.
In the one side, it could be as simple as: !Stob
On the other: function Stob { exit(); }
Though one could see how the latter possibly indicates lack of continued existence as well. Would all depend on garbage routines in the afterlife.
Good luck finding your final words!
Death by overflow
short life;
while( ++life ) {
enjoy( life );
}
Technically...
We ultimately die by underflow (DNA chops off bits during cell replication)
Underflow, you say?
In that case:
short life;
--life
while(--life)
{
enjoy(life);
}
At least that how I think it ought to go.
And why "short" life? A "long" life is surely far better?
Variants on a theme
Various bad puns based on RIP:
.
.
function Peace(){
sleep(1);
}
or
while(true){ sleep(1); }
or a full class
class Stob extends Person{
const DOB; //Set your value here
const DOD; //Set your value here
public function Stob(){
$now = new DateTime();
while($now < DOD){
$this->live();
$now = new DateTime();
}
}
public function __destruct(){
while(true){
sleep(peace);
}
}
}
$stob = new Stob();
title goes here
verity--;
Though for mine I think I'd prefer SYS 17 or TRAP 0.
Thanks -\ nd
\ nd = no data - empty posting because the title was sufficient. Don't look here for meaning, reason or cleverness. This post was for the authour and not for you. Figure out yer own epitaph. One of my aunts was deflicted with a Latin version of "misers make great ancestors, but terrible relatives." Go figure. It was commissioned by her son. The first try was mis-spelled by the stone mason; which seems to encapsulate much of her life.
Next time remember: "\ nd" means "no data." because I won't post an explanation.
More Pascal
program Stob(input, output);
begin
while Alive do
begin
live;
end;
end.
The full stop after the last end is important - it means end of the code file.
Non computo, ergo non sum
I do not compute, therefore I am not.
Phython
Python could revive memories from "Monty Python". Just for a laugh
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