Aw. I thought this was going to be more about using Unix as a natural language to write poetry, the way poetry competitions are held for programming languages.

Aw. I thought this was going to be more about using Unix as a natural language to write poetry, the way poetry competitions are held for programming languages. I think it would be interesting if more programs were written with an aesthetic or artistic goal in mind, rather than functional. Like network code that has feelings, or fonts that get blurry the longer you look at them, or programs that, instead of crashing, simply find something else to do. Maybe a program written so the source is a poem about lost love, and results in bugs that randomly corrupts your memory on your lover's birthday. I'm weird.