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Shakespeare's "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" as code

Here’s William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 (“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”) converted into the programming language ActionScript:

// Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
// by William Shakespeare
// ported to ActionScript 2.0 by Satori Canton
//
// Original poem can be viewed at:
// http://plagiarist.com/poetry/915/

var summer:Object = {};
var thee:Object = {};

summer.name = “Summer Day”;
thee.name = “Thee”;

summer.lovelyness = 9;
thee.lovelyness = 10;

summer.temperature = 98;
thee.temperature = 98.6;

summer.lease = new Date(2006, 7, 31).getTime() – new Date(2006, 5, 1).getTime();
thee.lease = new Date(2042, 6, 12).getTime() – new Date(1970, 8, 25).getTime();

summer.complexion = 0xFFCC33;
thee.complexion = 0xFFCCCC;

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