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Pseudo software as a self generating route description. Is this a joke?
For the half of it: yes, .walk is a joke. For the other half: no, .walk
is a serious attempt to find out if walking can be used for more than
transportation alone. Because we were already exploring walking around
on algorithms, it was a logical step to modify these little programs into
something that actually solves problems. Theoretically these individual
.walk programs could be connected into a computer.
In the "programming .walk for dummies" text it is shown how you can solve
quite complex computations by stripping them down to their smallest factor
& have a interesting walk at the same time.
.walk has however nothing to do with computer programming in any sense,
it only mocks them. .walks is not developed by programmers & the .walk
examples are written with only a minimal knowledge of both math & simple
computer languages like Basic. Everybody should be able to figure out
what a script does, but nevertheless people are scared by them, just as
they are scared by Justin Timberlake's lips. This is in a sense part of
the fun of the .walk project, there is nothing wrong with alienating people
a little bit, because they will only love .walk the better for it in the
end.
Do you fancy
a walk with us?
.walk
for dummies
http://www.socialfiction.org
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