[NetBehaviour] Fw: Code Is Not Literature

[Michael Szpakowski]

Hi 

I sent this earlier but the attachment must've got snarled up somewhere so sending it as a link ( see comment below):

http://www.michaelszpakowski.org/we_transfer_ad.jpg

cheers
michael

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I was amused to come across the attached -I guess you know an idea has arrived when commerce starts ripping it off :)
cheers
michael




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From: Pall Thayer <pallthay at gmail.com>
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <netbehaviour at netbehaviour.org> 
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 2:56 AM
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Code Is Not Literature



Everything needs to be decoded but it comes down to context. Someone attempting to decode my perl example as code might become very confused. It doesn't serve a purpose as a computer program. If you approach perl code as always having a useful function, it's not going to push your buttons. I could even see a serious perl programmer overlooking the serious message of the text. Who knows... perhaps I really am asking someone to push me off a cliff... but that's not what the code means. It has nothing to do with pushing a person, much less pushing a person over a cliff. It's simply adding an element to an array. And then, to top it all off, the array doesn't get used. Makes no sense. Or does it?




On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:38 PM, mez breeze <netwurker at gmail.com> wrote:


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>And, as a reply to Seibel's comments, do we not "decode" literature? 
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>Mezangelle certainly needs to be decoded. Sometimes I even help out with that [but only by "translating"/unpacking it into a diluted English version, like here: http://wishforyouand.me/2014/01/23/day-20/ ].
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