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Concrete Perl

A set of four concrete poems realized as 32-character Perl programs, by Nick Montfort

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You can download the linked Perl files and/or simply copy and paste the following four lines, which correspond to the four titles above:

Perl конкретизм

These programs have been transliterated to Cyrillic (and Natalia Fedorova has translated their titles to Russian). Perl's greater facilty with the Latin alphabet made it impossible to fit three of these four programs into 32 characters:

Perl κονκριτ

These programs have also been transliterated to Greek; the Greek titles were devised thanks to Christos Dimitrakakis and Thodoris Chiotis. Again, three of these do not fit into the original 32 characters:

March 2017