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./code --poetry
./code --poetry is a colourful cacophony of computer languages.
Authors Daniel Holden and Chris Kerr have created a collection of code poems - poems written in the source codes of a variety of programming languages.
Inside, code and poetry are presented alongside visual artwork with the poetry itself embedded in the source code of a number of programs. Every program is entirely valid, and when compiled and run these programs produce the visual artwork presented alongside the individual poems in the collection.
Readers without any knowledge of programming can take satisfaction in the fact they are reading an object that can be processed just as readily by machines as humans.
Lavishly formatted and bursting with colour, this unique book is essential for anyone passionate about visual art, poetry or programming. ./code --poetry is a Rosetta Stone for programmers, restored and rendered for the digital age, highlighting the intersection of three classic art forms.
Authors Daniel Holden and Chris Kerr have created a collection of code poems - poems written in the source codes of a variety of programming languages.
Inside, code and poetry are presented alongside visual artwork with the poetry itself embedded in the source code of a number of programs. Every program is entirely valid, and when compiled and run these programs produce the visual artwork presented alongside the individual poems in the collection.
Readers without any knowledge of programming can take satisfaction in the fact they are reading an object that can be processed just as readily by machines as humans.
Lavishly formatted and bursting with colour, this unique book is essential for anyone passionate about visual art, poetry or programming. ./code --poetry is a Rosetta Stone for programmers, restored and rendered for the digital age, highlighting the intersection of three classic art forms.
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38 pages, Paperback
Published September 21, 2016
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August 9, 2017
In order, the poems are written in haskell, ruby, ante (a language expressed using a standard deck of playing cards), go, piet (a language expressed in graphic image colors), objective-c, python, lua, php, c, c++, perl, racket, c#, befunge, and brainf*ck.
You can watch the poetry execute online:
(The online version contains a javascript poem not found in the paperback.)
You can watch the poetry execute online:
(The online version contains a javascript poem not found in the paperback.)
February 9, 2017
This class of poetry requires a different level of appreciation and analysis. I will be returning to these poems from time to time. The only condition for code poetry is that the code should compile and the source text must be poetic. These poems take it a notch higher by having programs which are not only deeply poetic but also yield beautiful visualizations when compiled and run. I loved the poem on Chernobyl. For a programmer, almost all the popular languages, even a few esoteric ones are covered. The rarely used keywords are used to an awesome poetic effect in almost all of the code poems.
I'll be returning from time to time to these, running them on my computer, and appreciating the code and the poetry even more.
The authors are amazing Computer Scientists and poets! I just wished the book would never end.
I'll be returning from time to time to these, running them on my computer, and appreciating the code and the poetry even more.
The authors are amazing Computer Scientists and poets! I just wished the book would never end.
February 4, 2017
More than just a collection of programs with poetic code comments, each work in this multi-lingual set experiments with the structure and form of the code itself. Strings are split into prose, variables assignment is used to create English syntax, and function declarations become major plot points.
The reader doesn't need to know each language to enjoy the code, though an understanding of it deepens the appreciation. There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in simultaneously reading for poetic meaning and also reading it as valid, compilable code. All of the code-poems are freely available online as well as the demo of it running, but I chose to read it in book form, which accentuates the poetic aspects.
equals=100% PROOF,of,chemical,dumps;
wind: across,the,'September'-blue,sky;
bending(to,the,RATIO);as:NATURE=fights_back;
using:/native-American/-wisps,that,clean-up|ALL|that,'bad stuff';
employing(a_simple_formula);the,/ancients/;!KNEW;
The reader doesn't need to know each language to enjoy the code, though an understanding of it deepens the appreciation. There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in simultaneously reading for poetic meaning and also reading it as valid, compilable code. All of the code-poems are freely available online as well as the demo of it running, but I chose to read it in book form, which accentuates the poetic aspects.
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