From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-07-19T11:45:31+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] "poetry" mode

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, James Britt wrote:

> Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> ...
>
>> it would be all line noise.  i think the 'poetry' bit makes sense since 
>> poetry,
>> when compared to 'normal' writing is clearly an attempt to distill an 
>> ideal,
>> feeling, emotion, etc. into a few select words arranged to maximize there
>> meaning - and yet leave room for interpretation. 
>
> Interesting.   I think poetry (when done well) elicits meaning from the 
> reader; it is a trigger, a catalyst, and the "meaning" of a poem varies not 
> only for each person, but for any given person at different times.
>
> To my mind, code poetry would never run the same way on different machines, 
> and indeed would never run quite the same way on the same machine, yet would 
> still impart something of appropriate value each time.

well, we always have

   array.sort_by{ rand }

;-)

-a
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