Comments: Poegram

Thanks Kelly, these are great. "Listen" is the canonical example of Perl poetry.

Posted by MGK at February 11, 2004 09:03 AM

It's strange: I had the conception that a poegram was an actual poem-program, a compilable, runable poegram. I guess I was tickled by the idea that a program, with all of its trappings, could be read as a poem and run as a program...maybe even run as a program that outputs a poem. I suppose there are probably such animals out there... I'll have to nose around if I get a chance.

Posted by ED at February 11, 2004 05:51 PM

Matt--yeah, I got a kick out of them. Delightful.

Ed--That was precisely what I was hoping for--an integration of the executable program and the poem in the language itself (or maybe in notation between the actual code--I believe you can do that, too.) I also want to see if there's more out there--if you find any, let me know.

Kell

Posted by Kell at February 13, 2004 05:02 AM