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Christian Heilmann calls himself codepo8, so it's not unheard of. I'd just as soon leave the writer designation for the real writers who write in real languages. Hacker is a high enough compliment for any code I might manage to exude. Btw are you a Perl Monk?
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Yeah I have seen programmers describe code as poetry actually, which I definitely see the resemblance (i.e., "best words in the best order"). Especially with things like quines
Ah I'm a bit of a Perl phony, just been doing little things with it because its a high-level programming language that comes installed with OpenBSD. Not yet a certified monk!