one loose and false way I've described all of this is to talk about teleology in relation to programming; decoding has to do most often with understanding the mechanism, efficiency, and so on. An artist on the other hand, or someone interested or operating within the 'literary' (yes, I know this doesn't exist), accepts and might even valorize error/glitch, just seeing where things will go. This has played out in a lot of schools I've taught in, in the antagonisms between the art and design areas; the latter (yes, I know), are often driven by product orientation, client, specification, etc., while the former might emphasize a kind of goalless wandering. I think even a client/server model has some interest here.
- Alan On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, Pall Thayer wrote:
Everything needs to be decoded but it comes down to context. Someone attempting to decode my perl example as code might become very confused. It doesn't serve a purpose as a computer program. If you approach perl code as always having a useful function, it's not going to push your buttons. I could even see a serious perl programmer overlooking the serious message of the text. Who knows... perhaps I really am asking someone to push me off a cliff... but that's not what the code means. It has nothing to do with pushing a person, much less pushing a person over a cliff. It's simply adding an element to an array. And then, to top it all off, the array doesn't get used. Makes no sense. Or does it? On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:38 PM, mez breeze <[email protected]> wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Pall Thayer <[email protected]> wrote: And, as a reply to Seibel's comments, do we not "decode" literature? Mezangelle certainly needs to be decoded. Sometimes I even help out with that [but only by "translating"/unpacking it into a diluted English version, like here: http://wishforyouand.me/2014/01/23/day-20/ ]. -- | facebook.com/MezBreezeDesign | twitter.com/MezBreezeDesign | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mez_Breeze _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- ***************************** Pall Thayer artist http://pallthayer.dyndns.org *****************************
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