there is so much more and various out there than that, seeing this in
2010 on a listserv no less, seems like we're confining our dreamy and
struggling and creative to cubes even more than in the "go go" 80s
I have seen and written poems in comments (very common)
in variables or object names (lots of flex, and can be apropos to function)
I can go on to the ways -- each computer lang differs and so does each
prog approach and ... oh,
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 17:14 +1100, Chris Jones wrote:
>
>> I could perhaps say the same of the "free open source" web-site designs
>> I have been looking at. While I do learn something of xhtml usage, the
>> visual designs are basically ...
>
> The other thing I should add, is that computer programming is a
> transitive production process. This says that computer programming
> cannot be art, itself, and can never be art. It is mechanism, of the
> most boring sort. (Not even Kant would accept this as art.)
>
> In computer code, one would not find poetry or art. Sure, I could write
> a few hundred lines of C as an interactive data base... but what of
> it... nothing but a boring, dreary repetition, in the sense of either,
> or, (K) choices excluding the excluded middle. Which is to say the
> exclusion of poetry and art. (How I data base my library based on a
> program written in C is not a part of art production, of course.)
>
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All best,
Catherine Daly
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