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From: steve duffy <[log in to unmask]>
To: british-poets <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 11 October 1999 04:50
Subject: Re: performance
>
> Hi cris,
>
> >> the programming is the performance
>
> I often hear something very like this from my family when i'm up to my
> ears in html tags. Your elegant reversal of my reading of inter-relation
> between writing and performance as ...
>
> >> the programming is the performance and the writing is the running of
> >> the programme?
Sorry to be anal over this - reading backlogged unread messages - but,
elsewhere, programming has been seen as analogous to --designing-- - the
bunch of text equating to program steps being the design. In my world, the
poem could be the design for the performance - the performance using the
poet as -interpreter- (another term used in computing), taking the design,
stepping through it and running it as binary. Spookily enough, programs
such as Perl use interpreters to take scripts and turn them into runtime.
Agreed that this could be interpreted as less than mechanistic in operation.
For me, programming could be the performance, if one were to treat the
process of -designing- of poems as a performance.
Roger
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