The Life of an Amoeba

[suaveant]

while(1) {
   fork();
}

Of course, all the while eating the resources around it :)

                - Ant

[tachyon]

HeHe

unless ($^O =~ /Win/i) {
    fork() until $crash;
}
print "Why bother, the system will crash anyway!\n";

cheers

tachyon

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[crazyinsomniac]

Oh ye of little style: fork while fork ;-)

 
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[MeowChow]

But crazy, this would mean constant, rather than exponential population growth. fork while 1 is more biologically accurate :p

   MeowChow                                   
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[AidanLee]

Perhaps it is just because I am more familiar with the visual arts, but the term minimalism comes to mind :). And although there is a certain minimalism to the Haiku, this feels distinctly western to me. Maybe it's the presence of a punch-line.

[suaveant]

Well... that was kind of the point... Amoeba's are minimalistic, so a poem about them should be... :) And of course, if you run it eat's your system... of course, without any checks maybe I should have named it the life of a bacterium...

                - Ant