Frabjous Times

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Gathered around the water hole

Fibonacci
sharp
chirp
ordered
frequency’s
self-unpacking stream
linger over the starsinger
the honchos come to blows over our own chance to brag
“[T]he following Unlambda program calculates and prints the Fibonacci numbers (as lines of asterisks)
```s``s``sii`ki
`k.*``s``s`ks
``s`k`s`ks``s``s`ks``s`k`s`kr``s`k`sikk
`k``s`ksk”

“The lambda calculus can be called the smallest universal programming language.”
Originally published: 2005/12/12 22:00:33