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[quote][b]Codework[/b] is "a type of creative writing which in some way references or incorporates formal computer languages ([url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B]C++[/url], [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl]Perl[/url], etc.) within the text. The text itself is not necessarily code that will compile or run, though some have added that requirement as a form of constraint."[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codework#cite_note-1][1][/url] The concept of and term 'codework' was originally developed by [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Sondheim]Alan Sondheim[/url],[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codework#cite_note-2][2][/url] but is also practiced by and used to refer to the work of other Internet artists such as [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mez_Breeze]Mez Breeze[/url], [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talan_Memmott]Talan Memmott[/url] (especially in the work [i][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexia_to_Perplexia]Lexia to Perplexia[/url][/i]), Ted Warnell, Brian Lennon, and [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cayley]John Cayley[/url].[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codework#cite_note-ref1-3][3][/url] Scholar [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Raley]Rita Raley[/url] uses the term "[net.writing]," which she defines as "the use of the contemporary idiolect of the computer and computing processes in digital media experimental writing." Raley sees codework as part of a broader practice exploring "the art of code."[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codework#cite_note-ref1-3][3][/url][/quote]
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Here's something I wrote, over twelve years ago. It's compilable C++ program, it is syntactically correct, it builds without errors. It has nonsense output, which doesn't add any further meaning at all.
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// while some people
#include
// others
#include
// and for some
class does_nothing { // singular in
public: // as class is
static // and
void at_all() // costs.
// though, speaking personally,
{ static does_nothing but_make_me_real; }
// and in
private: // to say class
does_nothing() {
while (0);
}};
const//ant
char*//m
does_it(
"for the ordinary person");
// is to fool yourself.
// when
class ee_people { // in the
public: // eye.
// s
ee_people(const // antly
char* //med by those who
are_classy) : // it's not
manners(0) { // that kill.
// it's the smaller
size_t red_lentils;
so: if // people
(!are_classy // and choke on
||!(red_lentils = strlen(are_classy)))
return;// the red lentils.
but: if // too many
(!(manners = // require
new char[red_lentils + 1]))
return;// asking
// what kind of society do we live in?
state: strcpy(manners, are_classy);
// but extraneous in contemporary society.
};
// bizz
~ee_people() { delete [] manners; }
const // ant
char* // ming of the
operator() // leaves a
(void) // in the heart, so
{ always: return // it with
manners; }
int // egrity of the
operator() // is always under
(const // ant threat, so
char* // ge out,
maybe) // or as i said before,
{ always: return // with
strcmp(manners, maybe?
maybe: // just
maybe); } // in
private: // there's some people who
char* // t the evolution of
manners;
};
// true to
typedef
class ee_people
// attract more
classy_people;
// but for me, and my
typedef
class does_nothing
// so I
do_nothing;
// to aid it.
template class is {
// important, in
public: // but ask a stranger if "
is(ONE & done): nicely( // ?" and one is
done) { // much disservice by
// the automatic
response: //"
nicely(does_it); } //"
const // antly increasing
char* // ges come not from un-
caring( // management, but from
const // ant interference from the
char* latans) // of finance.
{ // but with
static // in the air, and zero
int egrity = 0;
for (const//ant
char* mmers = //or
(const//ant
char*)latans;
// it all si
mmers != '';
// and it all si
mmers++) { // but
if (// you see gli
*mmers == ' ') {
// of hope,
increase_your_int: egrity++; // and
return // those gli
mmers++; }}}
// but in
private:
ONE & // does things
nicely; // only if one
// wants to, that is.
};
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
classy_people about("me turn up their noses.n");
// when i say
classy_people are_rich_and(
"act with all our best interests at heart.");
// but i jest!
// if i
printf("classy people %dn",
are_rich_and("and"));
do_nothing::at_all();
// on paper with a printer,
// and stick it on a wall.
// or question with a
printf( // asking
"class: %sn", does_it);
do_nothing::at_all(); // ?
// then what?
// but when i ask
is // the pomp of
// really all they
are(about);//?
// they all respond with a
printf("on paper %dn",
about("the upper class:n"));
// saying
we: are.caring("people just like you, so just make "
"sure it's not you who's all aloof "
"and distant when looking through the "
"eyes of an ordinary person, and leave "
"us to worry about ourselves!n");
// but when the bonuses come in, it's all soon forgoten,
// and people like me, we
return // with
0;
}
[/code]
Codework
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