OT: Crazy Programming

[Jacob Hallen]

In article <23891c90.0205160610.2f7f22c0 at posting.google.com>,
Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.net> wrote:
>I can understand people believing that the expression of concepts
>through a written language can be regarded as literature, but
>programming languages are somewhat different from natural languages,
>and it is certainly dubious to want to replicate certain parts of
>natural languages in computer languages. "Sorry your program didn't do
>what was expected of it - there's some use of double-entendre in the
>code, which I thought would make the program much more amusing to
>read."

The baroque went out of fashion over 200 years ago. Art is not merely
decorative and for amusement.

Jacob Hallén

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