Eye of the Beholder

By Ed Fries

"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

As a programmer I've always felt there is a connection between poetry and programming. Both try to express an idea concisely within a constrained environment. Consider the humble haiku. If I said to you, "I played Donkey Kong," you'd probably say, "So what?" But if I say it within the constrained system of the haiku, you might get something like this:

Monkey throws barrels