A little video from the Animaniacs TV show featuring a song about the nations of the world.
Funny how they sing “Germany now in one piece” — of course some things are outdated too, such as “Czechoslovakia”. Needless to say that “Yugoslavia” is also a thing of the past. These facts, by the way, date the song somewhere between 1990 and 1993, if I am not mistaken.
Inspired by Philipp Lenssen’s fabulous idea to express idioms in code, I came up—just for fun—with the following 10 well-known song titles, written in horrible C/Java/PHP pseudocode.
Have fun… and take a guess in the comments!
// Song 1:
it = b
// Song 2:
for (i=0; i<people.count(); i++)
people[i].attributes |= (shiny | happy);
// Song 3:
function get(want) {
if (random.bool() == true)
return want;
else
return null;
}
// Song 4:
//function leave() {
// return new Color(0,0,0);
//}
// Oh, I think I screwed this one up, so here it goes:
// Version 2.0 of Song 4: 
function leave(me) {
me.setColor(0,0,0);
return me;
}
// Song 5:
who = fire.getStarter();
assert(who != us);
// Song 6:
function cry(person) {
return (person.gender == female);
}
// Song 7:
person = king.getWife();
person.dance();
// Song 8:
life = me.getLife();
life.setSunshine(you);
// Song 9:
person = USGovernmentEmployees.getRandom();
while (person.boss != null)
person = person.boss;
person.writeLetter();
// Song 10:
train = trains.getLine(A);
you.take(train);
Update: I fixed Song 4 and 9 because they made way too little sense. Oops