Code poetry is literature that intermixes notions of classical poetry and computer code. Unlike
digital poetry
Digital poetry is a form of electronic literature, displaying a wide range of approaches to poetry, with a prominent and crucial use of computers. Digital poetry can be available in form of CD-ROM, DVD, as installations in art galleries, in cert ...
, which prominently uses physical computers, code poems may or may not run through executable binaries. A code poem may be interactive or static, digital or analog. Code poems can be performed by computers or humans through spoken word and written text.
Examples of code poetry include: poems written in a programming language, but human readable as poetry; computer code expressed poetically, that is, playful with sound, terseness, or beauty.
A variety of events and websites allow the general public to present or publish code poetry, including Stanford University's Code Poetry Slam, the PerlMonks Perl Poetry Page, and the International Obfuscated C Code Contest.
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See also
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Black Perl
"Black Perl" is a code poem written using the Perl programming language. It was posted anonymously to Usenet on April 1, 1990, and is popular among Perl programmers as a piece of Perl poetry. Written in Perl 3, the poem is able to be executed as ...
- A poem in perl
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PerlMonks
''PerlMonks'' is a community website covering all aspects of Perl programming and other related topics such as web applications and system administration. It is often referred to by users as 'The Monastery'.
The name PerlMonks, and the general sty ...
– New poems are regularly submitted to the community
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Recreational obfuscation
In software development, obfuscation is the act of creating source or machine code that is difficult for humans or computers to understand. Like obfuscation in natural language, it may use needlessly roundabout expressions to compose statem ...
- Writing code in an obfuscated way as a creative brain teaser
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School for Poetic Computation
The School for Poetic Computation (SFPC) is a hybrid of a school, residency and research group that was founded in 2013 in New York. A small group of students and faculty work closely to explore the intersections of code, art, hardware and the ...
References
Bibliography
* Francesco Aprile, ''Code Poems: 2010-2019'', Post-Asemic Press (2020).
* Charles Hartman, ''Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry'' (Wesleyan Poetry), Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press (1996).
* Ishac Bertran, ''code '', Barcelona: Impremta Badia (2012).
External links
Daniel Holden & Chris Kerr's multi-lingual code poetry collectionFrancesco Aprile, Computer poems. Dall’archeologia al source code poetry, in Utsanga.it, #09, september 2016*
ttps://www.wired.com/magazine/2013/04/code/ Wired Magazine: Code Isn’t Just Functional, It’s PoeticGitHub: Leslie Wu's Stanford code poetry slam winning entryFrancesco Aprile code poetry source since 2010ChucKu: 3 lines of code
Poetry movements
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