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“The programmer, like the poet, is only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff”—Shane Goodman

I am a computer programmer by trade, but programming and poetry have much in common. Trying to get your lines to rhyme, trying to type-cast your variables—it’s all the same. And then, when you think you’ve got consistency going for you, you find that there are exceptions to almost every rule, like you want to name a variable something snappy, but that word is ‘reserved’. Don’t believe that English poetry has exceptions? Let’s say your sentence ends with ‘orange’. Try to find something that rhymes with that. Go ahead—I dare you.

Journey into the dark mind of Edgar Allan Poe. This gothic poem was written in 1845 about a man’s longing for his lost love, and the creature that torments him in the night. It is called “The Raven”.

I have a dark side, a “shadow” if you will, but not by choice. This is something that has grown by circumstances, and not by chance. No one could possibly understand this Secret Life.

On the lighter side, see a A Snowball’s Prayer.