[shove]

We poets walk amongst you on HN also. Our poems aren’t very good, but then our code isn’t either ;)

[greenie_beans]

do you also do line breaks in your code like you would in a poem? the linter doesn't understand. i broke the line like that for a reason, mainly because it makes it more readable. have never worked with a programmer who understood that.

[mometsi]

  I have freed  
  the symbols  
  from your  
  clumsy lines

  which  
  the linter probably  
  considers  
  in error  
    
  Indulge me  
  it's more readable  
  neat functions  
  in neat form

[samplatt]

In chat programs today and all the way back to my early IRC years, I've been putting a space between a ? or ! and the preceding word, if the word is at the end of the line/paragraph.

Coffee? Yes, please !

It's probably just a neurodivergent quirk, but it's always felt far more readable and just... right.

[rikroots]

Not in Python. Whitespace and lineation can be important in some poems and Python just doesn't have the flexibility.

I have experimented with Javascript eval(``) ... but prefer not to talk about it.

[greenie_beans]

python is one of the languages where i do this. it's more using good typographical practices with line breaks, rather than using whitespace. especially with code comments

[zerojames]

with our eyes wide and bright

on the orange site, we write

in curiosity, we find delight

here: a land of the bit and the byte

[jvm___]

We're bad poets and we know it - our git history shows it.

[layman51]

You reminded me of the “Git and GitHub for Poets” tutorial videos that Daniel Shiffman did for his Coding Train YouTube channel.

[ubertaco]

I wrote one once that I tried to also express using bad UML, as a sort of artistic experiment.

It was...not great. I still think the work was a decent expression of my emotional state at the time, even if the UML-ified version sucked.

(but then, _a lot_ of UML sucks, so....)

[ioblomov]

Reminds me of Norvig’s PowerPoint of the Gettysburg address (not strictly poetry, but certainly some of the most poetic prose in English rhetoric)…

http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/sld001.htm