corpus

programming languages

• qlb - ramsey nasser
• tampio - finnish-looking programming language
• goto++ - full parody
• linotte - “if you can read a book, you can read a program”
• dolittle - japanese programming language (using reverse word order, like japanese grammar)
• maude - meta language
• befunge - two-dimensional playfield
• aheui - korean version of befunge
• chicken - one word, also has the most beautiful white paper
• emmental - self-rewriteable programming language
• brainfuck - <3 (draws from false)
• malbolge - hell
• difficult - thing, and everything
• lolcode - l33t sp34k as turing-complete
• this=that - exclusively variable-based language (with some pretty examples in the documentation)
• klingon - klingon
• perl-klingon - perl klingon
• unicode-obfuscated language proposal - can not use ASCII characters
• qriollio - language based on a hispanic dialect (rioplatense)
• urduscript - also based on a dialect (urdish = urdu + english)
• APLBAONWSJAS - just one command
• light patterns - harvestworks + daniel temkin
• shakespeare - like tragedy
• intercal - parody, amusing documentation and dialects
• whitespace - whitespace with only, well, whitespace (goes with perl::bleach)
• ioke - recursive, modifying, serious language
• excel turing - computer in excel

• trumpscript - python in trump’s america

• algol - with its dialects
• perl
• c++
• javascript
• racket
• python
• lisp
• java
• clojure
• go

poems

• code poems
• coroutines
• git commit messages
• perl poetry
• algol 69 - noel arnaud - poetry written in algol in 1968 (!!) (brief discussion, and here)
• Code scares me – Jessica Loseby
• poem by nari - warnell
• source code poetry - contemporary contest (but it imposes rhyming which is weird)
• perl poetry
• perl poetry contest
• tutorial on writing code poems
• ./code –poems
• black perl - original perl poem
• code poetry slam at stanford
• rasta software - wtf really

peripheral

• code city - metaphor for source code
• ching - example of creative man page
• perl poetry mode - assumptions that a word is going to define a subroutine eventually
• perl::bleach - turns perl source code into whitespace code

others/misc

• everythingissomeone - object oriented night time stories
• if hemingway wrote javascript - with a repo and a blogpost
• i speak myself into an object - code book
• basic computer games - source code of basic computer games
• first screening: computer poems - kinetic poems from 1984, with the source code of the JS reimplementation
• generations - short stories generated with python code and distributed as book/pdf with source code
• what to do after you hit return - decorated source code from old times published by the people’s computer company
• google groups discussions about perl poems
• hastac code critique forums
• writeup on code poetry slam
• exquisite code - doesn’t seem to be so much related to source code
• why code is not poetry - with a response here
• blog post on code and poetry
• how to make pretty vba