If Lovecraft Wrote C

Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie appear to be two techies who have clothed a vast knowledge of techno-occult workings in Lovecraftian terms. "The C Programming Language" is an elaborate "Shadow Over Innsmouth" pastiche that runs with the amusing idea of Lovecraft as software programmer. Surely, this is a new role for the Providence writer in the world of Lovecraftian humor. But, with Cutethulhu type jokes running rampant online in "geek" subcultures, perhaps it was only a matter of time. And thankfully, it has finally happened, if only to show that madness like this can raise its bloated head up on the stage of weird comedy. Who else could visually encode the language of the Old Ones in modern terms?

void Rlyeh
    (int mene[], int wgah, int nagl) {
    int Ia, fhtagn;
    if (wgah>=nagl) return;
    swap (mene,wgah,(wgah+nagl)/2);
    fhtagn = wgah;
    for (Ia=wgah+1; Ia<=nagl; Ia++)      if (mene[Ia]

Check out the link above for a laugh from the black labs of experimental eldritch humor.

-Grim Blogger