{"id":1683,"date":"2011-05-19T20:26:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T00:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2011-05-20T14:05:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T18:05:09","slug":"an-alphabet-in-25-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2011\/05\/an-alphabet-in-25-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"An Alphabet in 25 Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m here at the University at Buffalo enjoying the E-Poetry Festival. Amid this discussion of digital work, concrete poetry, and related innovative practices, and among this great crowd of poets, I&#8217;ve developed a very short piece for anyone with Perl installed to enjoy &#8211; just copy and paste on the command line:<\/p>\n<p><code>yes | perl -pe '$.%=26;$_=$\"x$..chr 97+$.'<\/code><\/p>\n<p>It does use &#8220;yes,&#8221; one of my favorite Unix\/GNU commands, and the -p option to wrap the Perl code in a loop. So there&#8217;s some bonus stuff there on the command line. But the Perl code itself is only 25 characters long, not a bad length for a program that displays the alphabet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/alphabet_in_25.png\" alt=\"Alphabet in 25\" title=\"Alphabet in 25\" width=\"357\" height=\"364\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m here at the University at Buffalo enjoying the E-Poetry Festival. Amid this discussion of digital work, concrete poetry, and related innovative practices, and among this great crowd of poets, I&#8217;ve developed a very short piece for anyone with Perl installed to enjoy &#8211; just copy and paste on the command line: yes | perl &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2011\/05\/an-alphabet-in-25-characters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Alphabet in 25 Characters&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,24,4,9],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-digital","tag-gatherings","tag-poetry","tag-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}