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Pa-pause a while in these palm-thatched cabañas;
While all your days are spent plaintain bananas.
While all your days are spent plaintain bananas.
— BRUCE ROGERS, Owed to Treasure Island (1938)
but the cows walked solidly and breathed heavily,
as people breathe who appreciate the Fine Arts.
as people breathe who appreciate the Fine Arts.
— RUDYARD KIPLING,
On Dry Cow Fishing as a Fine Art
(1890)
Mystically Evolving Scribbledecobbled Software
Curious works of avant-garde comic composition, MESSes are creative ways of directing your attention fruitfully to the art and science of computer programming.
Insignificant but for their experimental style, MESSes are not the most complicated works of art composed in the de facto and de jure standard lingua francas of the Web. Neither are they set in stone. They're malleable and will bend to your will, iff you roll up your sleeves and use your imagination. Some MESSes may expound on the art of creating a single-page application while emphasizing basic, time-tested approaches to solving common, often age-old problems. Some may appear to be just messing around. MESSes may tell stories and connect the art of computer programming with an array of fields including math, religion, construction, literature, fishing and other fine arts.
In Abrahamic religions, the Messiah is the one chosen to lead the world and thereby save it. At the center of each MESS lies the programmer—the Messiah-like individual empowered to modify and manipulate multiple MESSes without the burden of being responsible for creating actual ones in need of salvation. If you mess one up, throw it away and live to code another day.
