[yareally]

Code can be literature in specific cases, such as the Shakespeare programming language. It's just a whimsical, esoteric language, like lolcode, but it reads like the Immortal Bard himself was an early adopter of learning to program.

Example of a conditional statement:

  Juliet:
    Am I better than you?

  Hamlet:
    If so, let us proceed to scene III.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_(programming_langua...

[Solarsail]

Shakespeare is only superficially readable. In reality, the logic executed by the program is very nearly unrelated to the way the program reads to a human. Essentially it's a cute syntax over the same old FORTRAN, much like lolcode. It was a missed opportunity to represent logic as meaningful literature.