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Toonbots archive: episode published 15 March, 2001

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Toonbots heads for points west as the metacartoonist revels in his ethnic heritage: geek. Not enough poetry has been written about software, and now we're going to change all that while we revamp the Toon-o-Matic. Let's hear it for SWIG!

The script used to make this toon:

<cartoon height="300" width="550" rowformat="2">
<panel>
   <character name="dot"/>
   <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="blue">SWIG is cool, SWIG is neat.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
   <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="blue">SWIG's a tool for wrapping meat.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
   <character name="lenin"/>
   <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="red">But the meat's no good to eat,</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
   <character name="lenin" aspect="faceright"/>
   <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="red">'cause SWIG just generates code.</caption>
   <caption location="bottom left" fgcolor="blue" size="18">So?  It rhymed, pravda boy.</caption>
</panel>
</cartoon>