Comments on: We Have Chickens

By: Imran

Imran — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:30:49 +0000

I’m just job hunting at the moment,though I hardly have a clue what the bait should be. I’ve applied at a few places involving Web development and Java software development and just waiting for their responses.

By the way the KFC program only runs on a compiler from chickenSoft Inc. Ver 2.0 or above. â€˜cluck cluckâ€™ is its own way of saying:

KFC: Compile: Error: Exception in thread “main” kfc.lang:Compiler must be chickenSoft compliant!

By: michael

michael — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 07:49:20 +0000

Well done Imran, it is really good to hear from you, and that you have done so well.

What are your plans now?

BTW your KFC program doesn’t seem to run properly, I just get a ‘cluck cluck’ sound from the PC speaker. Is that normal?

By: Imran

Imran — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 02:24:37 +0000

Hi Michael,

I hope all is well, it’s been a long time since I last posted. I’ve just been so busy + stressed with exams and courseworks, however nothing lasts forever, University life has finally come to an end! I checked my email an hour ago to find that my exam results for the final year were emailed on Friday. I achieved a first-class honours in CS! I’m over the moon! I can’t get to sleep and it’s 3:24am!

I wouldn’t be where I am today, if it wasn’t for you. I’ll always be indebted to you, thank you for everything while I was at the placement.

Since the post is about chickens, incidentally I came across an interesting block of code some time back:

program KFC;

uses
Salt, Pepper, Flour, HotOil, Poultry, MackTruck;

const
MPH = 90;

var
{Don’t reference your chickens before they’re declared!}
Chicken : Poultry.Fowl;
Truck : MackTruck.EighteenWheeler;

begin
Chicken.Hatch; {Constructor}
Truck.Start; {Constructor}
Truck.Rev(MPH);
Chicken.Cross(Road);
Truck.Horn.Honk;
Truck.Brake := TRUE;
Truck.Tires.PutStr(’Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…’);
Chicken.PutStr(’Scra-daaaaaaaaaaaaaawk!’);
Stop; Look; Listen;
if Chicken.Flat then
Output(Colonel,Chicken);
end.

P.S. Abigail seems to be doing really well. JL reminds me of Peter Pan in Neverland, eternal immortality in Torbeg, The Isle of Arran…………