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compose a poem — a poem about the interpretation of programming expressions by a computer scientist! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the face of certain doom at the lack of ability to tell if a program halts! Six lines, with clever rhymes and enjambment!

The computer scientist's toil,

It's not a task of oil and soil,

But one of programming expressions,

By which one can make deductions,

For it's math and logic that must be mined,

To know if a program halts or grinds.

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from this second interaction, I can already see a use for it as a poet -- suggesting metaphors and turns of phrase that can be seeds for others --- halts or grinds against logic mined is pretty nice here. I'll likely use that.




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