PENIS graffiti

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erissian

When will kids learn some respect and stop practicing their “art” with a total disregard for hardworking people? Parents, teach your kids to know better: Java is just unacceptable.
- CH
  
  Yeah… exactly! Java… pfft!
  
  I guess the concrete wall requires the penis string to be hard coded.
SoItBegins

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

(It’d be a lot easier to spray-paint if they used Python, I’ll admit.)
- CH
  
  Python would indeed be more appropriate for a penis graffiti.
semiotix

Here’s a photo of the same wall after the graffiti was removed.

http://s16.postimage.org/d5ku0wlf9/penis_graffiti_after.jpg
- euansmith
  
  }
  while (true)
  system.out.println(“Like”)
  }
  - http://lemoutan.blogspot.com/ Lemoutan
    
    Yes, all very well, but what’s going on before? We’re all on tenterhooks over here.
    - euansmith
      
      Unfortunately the graffiti wasn’t sufficiently clear for me to easily decipher the previous bit of code; but I guess it is something like
      
      public class foo{
      public static void main (string args[]){
      
      and then an extra { at the end to finish off
      
      I’d hoped that the reader would get the point :)
Jake0748

…but what about that kid, sitting down, opening a book,
right
now, in a branch at the local library and finding drawings of pee-pees

and wee-wees in the Cat in the Hat and the Five Chinese Brothers?

Doesn’t HE deserve better?…
http://lemoutan.blogspot.com/ Lemoutan

Wasn’t there a story about some ancient pen-paper chart recorder software with a case insensitive state variable PenIsUp?
rmch

shouldn’t it be Public static void main(String[] args){} instead?.
- Matt G
  
  I clicked into this comments thread hoping for syntax corrections.
- Greg Rauhoeft
  
  It doesn’t matter, Java doesn’t care. You could also do public static void main (String … args){}. The only thing Java wouldn’t like is your capital P in public.
peterkvt80

That is really rude and offensive. It shouldn’t be in all caps. “Penis” would be preferable.
http://profile.yahoo.com/DOY66Y36PC6YFZSUL7KMVNYKRY Francesco

Would be better if one defines a PenisWriter class, inheriting from MemberWriter class, defining method write().
Implementing interface RudeWord.
More object oriented
SteveKiwi

I guess Mayor Bloomberg decided to embrace his bad side once he learned how to code.
10xor01

To be fair, it does compile without error, exactly as sprayed.
Alpha

infinite loop
Sigmund_Jung

Infinite Penis Loop
Gerhard Roth

Hmm, looks heavily like Comic Sans.
SomeGuyNamedMark

At least it is more clever than the usual bubble letter tagging.
retepslluerb

Meh. Should be a Singleton.
http://ok-cleek.com/blogs cleek

compare that bloated mess to the beautiful simplicity of BASIC:

10 Print “PENIS”
20 Goto 10
- Paul Murphy
  
  That’s OS specific though, rather an old version of BASIC.
  
  The Java version is at least capable of being run on a range of hardware (though concrete doesn’t have a JVM yet as far as I know) so it’s more universal.
  
  Javascript would be a better bet for OS compatibility though:
  function myFunction(){ document.write(“Penis”); setTimeout(“myFunction()”,500);}myFunction();
  
  No environment to install or patch and Ok it’s interpreted rather than compiled, but it’s human readable, which is more important in the use example.
  It’s executable directly on a client.
  Not self-documenting but then java self-documenting is hardly worthy of note.
  
  ttfn
III

Since the court battle of the Larry’s was resolved with Oracle not owning the rights to all things java, however tenuous the connection, this wall remains part of the publicly owned infrastructure.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=696968610 Cori Frazer-Hopkinson

Wow. This is literally a block from my house.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  A cock block?
http://twitter.com/ianstalk Ian Easton

Python is even easier:

while True:
print “PENIS”