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Introduction
Bad news guys - you got detention. Your English teacher doesn't understand this site and wants you to "stop doing math on your digital dohickeys, this is English class!"
She sentenced you to write her favorite saying on the blackboard 25 times, which will give a total of 100 lines on the blackboard.
The eighteen-hundreds were a time for rum.
The nineteen-hundreds were a time for fun.
The two-thousands are a time to run
a civilized classroom.
Lucky for you, you are an avid reader (not to mention an expert code-golfer)! You have a read about a trick that might possibly get you off easy.
(Foxtrot by Bill Amend)
Unfortunately for Jason, it didn't work out. But you have a better idea! Since your English teacher thinks you're doing math, if you leave all the numbers out of your program it just might work! You also want to keep your program as short as possible because you are a lazy student and don't want to write a lot on the board.
Write a program that complies with the following rules:
- Your program must print the 4 above lines 25 times. The lines must be outputted in that order, repeating. Total exactly 100 lines of output (a trailing newline at the very end or a leading newline at the very beginning is okay).
- You cannot use the characters
0123456789
. Your teacher gets confused by math and will call you out! - You can use any imports and external libraries without counting the imports. Your English teacher doesn't know about programming. Jason could have saved a lot of work by not writing
#include <stdio.h>
and you don't want to make his same mistakes! - Score your program by
byte
count. Lowest score wins!
2If the text would've read "1900s", writing the output would've been slightly more tricky. – Ingo Bürk – 2014-10-23T14:50:11.813
30to the comix: he's not printing \n's, and the loop from 1 is pretty awkward (like against C nature)... – V-X – 2014-10-23T15:41:33.923
11@V-X Bill Amend is a long-time Pascal die-hard, and whenever he writes C that becomes pretty apparent. – fluffy – 2014-10-23T18:09:48.490
Can we see some Brainfuck code here? :) – AStopher – 2014-10-23T21:23:39.833
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@cybermonkey It's here http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/40256/148
– Kevin Brown – 2014-10-24T03:19:06.5631The issue with allowing free imports is Python:
from random import random as r
- it can combine imports and aliases into one statement. Probably not too useful for a simple challenge like this though – None – 2014-10-24T07:16:00.907Would you allow a leading newline? – Beta Decay – 2014-10-25T14:11:41.477
5This sounds very much like one of my old English teachers. – Kaz Wolfe – 2014-10-25T16:58:10.377
2Banning + would have made sense here, but maybe that would have been too difficult. – Pharap – 2014-10-28T09:38:41.240