is "blackbird" some kind of druggie term?

[gopunk]

my ML programming book says:

In Fig. 3.18, we define two local variables, four and twenty (no jokes about blackbirds, please).

 

[ElFenix]

agatha chirstie

 

[Rage187]

420 is a drug term.

 

[JC]

Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie.....

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: Rage187
420 is a drug term.

yea i knew that much... i was just confused by the "blackbird" reference

 

[JC]

Link

 

[AntaresVI]

Originally posted by: JC
Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie.....

When the pie was opened, the birds began to sing.....

 

[gopunk]

oh i see... so is this just a coincidence, or does the stoner holiday actually have something to do with the poem?

 

[JC]

No, the 420 pot term is supposed to have something to do with molecular structure or something.