Factorial in haiku!

Smalltalk

(evaluate in a workspace; opens a dialog, asks for a number and prints the result on stdout):

"in" "this" 'poem,' "you" "must"
"pronounce" "characters" "like" "these:"
"return(^)," "and" "times(*);" "please".

"but" 'never' "in" "here"
"tell" "anyone" "about" "those"
"few" "parentheses".

"otherwise" "these" "words" 
"are" "stupid" "and" "this" "coded" 
"rhyme" "is" "wasted" Time.

"let" "us" "now" "begin" 
"by" "defining," "in" Object
"and" compile: "the" "rhyme:"

'fac: "with" arg"ument"
"to" "compare" arg <"against" 2 ">"
"and" ifTrue: [ ^"return"

"["1] "or" ifFalse: "then"
["return"^ arg *"times" "the" "result"
"of" ("my"self ")getting"

"the" fac:"torial"
"of" "the" "number" arg "minus"-
1 "[(yes," "its" "easy")]'.

("Let" "me" "my"self "ask"
"for" "a" "number," "to" "compute"
"the" fac:"torial"

("by" "opening" "a" 
"nice" Dialog "which" "sends" "a"
request: "asking" "for"

'the Number to use' 
"(which" "is" "(" "treated" ) asNumber)
"then" print "the" "result".

I tried to bring in some reflection ("in this poem") and kigo as well. Also, some western style rhyme elements are included (please->these, time->rhyme); however, being neither native speaker of Japanese, nor of English, forgive any stylistic details ;-)


Java - 2 haikus

protected static
        int factorial(int n) {
    if (n == 0) {
        return n + 1;
    } return factorial(n
            - 1) * n;}

Even when the question isn't code-golf, I often catch myself golfing the answer. In this case, I golfed the number of haikus.

I pronounce it so:

protected static
int factorial int n
if n is zero

return n plus one
return factorial n
minus one times n


Test program:

class Factorial {                                    // class Factorial
    public static void main(String[]                 // public static void main string
            command_line_run_args) {                 // command line run args
        
        int i = 0;                                   // int i is zero
        while (7 != 0)                               // while seven is not zero
            System.out.                              // System dot out dot

                    println(i + "!"                  // print line i plus not
                            + " = " + factorial(     // plus is plus factorial
                            i += 1));}               // i plus equals 1

    protected static
            int factorial(int n) {
        if (n == 0) {
            return n + 1;
        } return factorial(n
                - 1) * n;}}

Note that this program starts outputting 0s fast; that is a result of overflow. You could easily get larger correct numbers by changing each int to long.

Standard pronunciations for System.out.println and public static void main(String[] args) are reflected in the program.


Haskell

fact :: Int -> Int          -- fact is Int to Int
fact x = product (range x)  -- fact x is product range x
range x = [1..x]            -- range x is 1 [pause] x

Haskell education time:

  • The range x function creates a list of integers from 1 up to the value of x.
  • The fact x function multiplies all the values of the list range x together to compute the result.
  • The first line says that the fact function takes an integer and returns an integer.