Oh hey, a kindred spirit! Among other things, I find it oddly satisfying that zverok also mentioned APL in his post. Save for he being an actual poet and publis

Oh hey, a kindred spirit! Among other things, I find it oddly satisfying that zverok also mentioned APL in his post. Save for he being an actual poet and published author, and I not, we share similar sentiments. The other dissimilarity is that zverok is having to wage actual war, which I can only imagine and maybe not even that, which I've alluded to in my post. I wrote this some time ago: As Lovely as a Tree. On the algorithm as a poetic form. https://tblm.substack.com/p/as-lovely-as-a-tree https://tblm.substack.com/p/as-lovely-as-a-tree Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40688695 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40688695 Excerpt: Following any of these threads about the magic, art, craft, and imagination of code will certainly compel us to consider the subject of its beauty, and that of the algorithms within. Ink—old-style and digital—has clearly been spilled on the subject. Albeit, nearly not as much as on beauty itself. Bloodshed is another matter. The millennia-old field of algorithms has morphed into our not-even-centenarian field of computers; a mere newborn, eyes still closed, in the saga of the human condition. They are united not only by shared blood, but that of others spilled for and due to them. Increasingly so, as they permeate all of humanity's projects, projectiles, and pogroms, materialised as computer code. When it comes to that kind of thing, even one spill is one too many. (edit: add more context)