I tend to think of code much more like "poetry" than "prose". Programming languages provide required "meter", "rhyme", and other similar "format requirements" l

I tend to think of code much more like "poetry" than "prose". Programming languages provide required "meter", "rhyme", and other similar "format requirements" like poetry styles. Style guides and lint tools even further "refine" the "poetry style" agreed on by a development effort. I haven't found any particular use for this analogy for deep insights (there rarely were collectives focused on long form poetry in history, depending on what you think of oral storytelling traditions and/or if you agree with conspiracy theories that the output attributed to William Shakespeare was more of a collective effort than a lone auteur), but I still find it an interesting analogy.