Space progress

So I’ve been researching code poetry. A lot of it seems to be in Perl which I haven’t touched in years. There are some really nice examples around though. The rewrite of Jabberwocky is quite cool. If you run it it spawns off 3 processes, each one being triggered by the 3 characters of the poem – how good is that!! The name Sharon Hopkins keeps popping up so she needs further investigation. An example of one of her poems can be seen here.

Thing is, I’m not sure if I want to write poetry. My original thoughts behind usng code was descriptive so I’m more inclined to write some sort of narrative but I do like the Jabberwocky thing of it “doing something”. As Pele and the ferryman were both part of the things they were controlling I think it’s important that the “program” describes “the thing” as well as producing something else, maybe some visuals, maybe spawned processes. I guess once I know what I’m doing it’ll all fall neatly into place….well, that’s the theory anyway.