Re^2: Flight of The Sailfish

I personally believe that that's the least of the problems. We're talking about poetry here. There are quite a lot of poems that do not use punctuation at all or use much sparser punctuation than prose. Pauses are often suggested by line breaks and the like. I have some poems of my own: not Perl poems, since I don't like that as concept - for me a particularly well written piece of code is poetry! (As can be considered a mathematical formula, in some respects, because it aims at expressing the maximum significance in the least significant - I hope to have got the linguistic terms right, they're missing from my physical IT-EN dictionary and I couldn't find them online...) Now, some of them have more or less "regular" punctuation, some have somewhat "alternative" punctuation, and some do not have it at all. Of course, this is not the proof of anything: I'm not a poet. Indeed, my whole production counts eleven poems in about thirteen years!! (Those are the ones I've valued to be worth keeping...)

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Re^3: Flight of The Sailfish by Gavin (Archbishop) on Oct 21, 2008 at 12:23 UTC
What you say is very true. But the OP is neither Perl nor poetry to my mind.	[reply]
Re^3: Flight of The Sailfish by CountZero (Bishop) on Oct 23, 2008 at 21:06 UTC
Indeed punctuation or the lack of it should not matter in poetry, but this "poem" does not consistently use or omits punctuation and that is what irritates me. CountZero A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James	[reply]


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