How to write about the relationship between programming and coding? In the dialogue that Steve Ramsay and I gave at the ACH in Georgia we delivered a dialogue called Untitled Number 4: A Brechto-Socratic Dialgoue. This was actually based on a series of playful experiments at writing code that could be read which led to literary program in Ruby that could be read or run. See the IE web archive of what the print version of the program looked like this – Untitled Number 4. A literary program is written like prose with code fragments woven in the flow of the text (as opposed to comments in the flow of the code.) Software can then generate the documentation or the code to be interpreted.
Some of Matt’s students commented on the dialogue. See Code as Writing as Code.
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