I think a lot of people have sort of gotten over the "novelty" of Perl and these practices have sort of fizzled out. It's a shame because there is of course no chance that they exhausted all of the possibilities. Perhaps the fact that Perl's not as popular as it was has a lot to do with it. Based on this example, I don't think Python really works for poetry: http://honestpoet.wordpress.com/2007/12/23/worlds-first-poem-written-in-python/
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It's great - I forget about the Perl examples - I wonder if that culture's > even going on at the moment. > > - Alan > > > On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Pall Thayer wrote: > >> But I don't think the code actually rhymed. >> >> This was actually put to me as a challenge by a friend. He didn't >> specify that actually had to do anything worth while and it doesn't. >> But it's syntactically correct, runs without error but doesn't produce >> any output. When making it, I wasn't producing it specifically to be >> part of the Microcode selection but it's an interesting experiment so >> I added it to the site. >> >> best r. >> Pall >> >> oh... ps. I made a slight mistake in the "read" example. It should of >> course be "If two equals two OR love matches u", not "AND love matches >> u". This makes a big difference since it means that the code within is >> executed but what is after the "else" statement is not. Otherwise it >> would produce output. >> >> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Great - this reminds me of perl poetry, at the end of Larry Walls' book >>> (think I have the right name) - ALan >>> >>> >>> On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Pall Thayer wrote: >>> >>>> Two or Love >>>> >>>> #!/usr/bin/perl >>>> if(2 == 2 || 'love' =~ /u/){ >>>> $two = 1 unless $none; >>>> while($beef || $pork){ >>>> sleep(11) && fork(); >>>> } >>>> }else{ >>>> sleep(22) && print "fun"; >>>> } >>>> >>>> ( >>>> read: >>>> if two equals two >>>> and love matches u >>>> two equals one >>>> unless none >>>> while beef or pork >>>> sleep eleven and fork >>>> else sleep twenty-two and print fun >>>> ) >>>> -- >>>> ***************************** >>>> Pall Thayer >>>> artist >>>> http://www.this.is/pallit >>>> ***************************** >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> == >>> current text file: http://www.alansondheim.org/qg.txt >>> sondheim mail-text archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ >>> webpage http://www.alansondheim.org sondheimat gmail.com, panix.com >>> == >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> ***************************** >> Pall Thayer >> artist >> http://www.this.is/pallit >> ***************************** >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> > > > == > current text file: http://www.alansondheim.org/qg.txt > sondheim mail-text archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ > webpage http://www.alansondheim.org sondheimat gmail.com, panix.com > == > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- ***************************** Pall Thayer artist http://www.this.is/pallit ***************************** _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
