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Re:Velato: A programming language where source code must be ... by andrewflnr on Monday March 04, 2024 @08:29AM (#39590201)
For the same effort you put into any piece of art, you could always do something more economical, and yet lots of people take their art very seriously.
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Re:Velato: A programming language where source code must be ... by Rochus on Monday March 04, 2024 @09:22AM (#39590830)
It's a piece of technology, and it has function. It just hasn't an obvious use case. If someone publishes a programming language, usually they provide examples and a descripton on the purpose of the language, or in which way it improves over other existing languages. It doesnt make any sence to publish a technology which has no obvious use case without any explanation of its intended purpose.
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Re:Velato: A programming language where source code must be ... by andrewflnr on Monday March 04, 2024 @01:40PM (#39594177)
Do you think being a piece of technology means that it can't also be art?

(They could stand to put some examples on the front page, that's fair.)

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Re:Velato: A programming language where source code must be ... by Rochus on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @06:18AM (#39601971)
Technology always includes aspects of art; but form follows function.
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