Discussion on: Can code be poetic?

[Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard]

can code be poetic?

#!/usr/bin/perl 

APPEAL: 

listen (please, please); 

open yourself, wide; 
    join (you, me), 
    connect (us,together), 

tell me. 

do something if distressed; 

    @dawn, dance; 
    @evening, sing; 
    read (books,$poems,stories) until peaceful; 
    study if able; 

    write me if-you-please; 

sort your feelings, reset goals, seek (friends, family, anyone); 

            do*not*die (like this) 
            if sin abounds; 

keys (hidden), open (locks, doors), tell secrets;

do not, I-beg-you, close them, yet.

                    accept (yourself, changes), 
                    bind (grief, despair); 

require truth, goodness if-you-will, each moment; 

select (always), length(of-days) 

# listen (a perl poem) 
# Sharon Hopkins 
# rev. June 19, 1995 docstore.mik.ua/orelly/perl/prog3/ch27_02.htm

[Keff]

That's beautiful ❤️

[Abhinav Kulshreshtha]

Is this from perlmonk website? This is quite poetic.

[Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard]

I don't remember where I've seen it first, I have done Perl programming almost 20 years ago :P

[Ruslan Astratov]

Wow!

[Michael Tharrington]

Loving this! I'm trying my best to follow and I think I got it. 😀

By the way, the whole impetus for this post came about because of our conversation here:

Jean-Michel Fayard 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇧🇪🇸🇨🇴 • Aug 9 • Edited on Aug 9

So simple yet profound

🇨🇺 Un jardinero de amor, planta una flor y se va.
🇨🇺 Otro viene y la cultiva, ¿de cuál de los dos será?
🇬🇧 A gardener of love, plants a flower and leaves
🇬🇧 Another comes and cultivates it, which of the two will it be?

pure poetry