Talk:Regularity

Okay, we need to start this chapter with a discussion of 10 PRINT and its structure. To this end, I moved this section to the top, but when I put it in the spotlight (as opposed to the end of the chapter), it was too disjoint from what the chapter is trying to do. Right now this section goes something like this:

Here's something about computers that's a little obvious.

Here's something that's less obvious but not not true about 10 PRINT

Here's something else that's not really true about 10 PRINT

Here's something else we wanted to talk about.

Here's looping.

I need you Nick or Mark S. to rewrite this to fit what we've got for the rest of the chapter. I moved it here because I'd like you to start fresh on the prose to write it in the same style as your other sections later on in the chapter.

namely:

Establish 10 Print as:

1) a repeated process

2) of creating a regular repeated pattern

3) across time and space

So we can still talk about Flow and Goto but emphasizing not the lesson in computers but instead how the program takes advantage of repetition and regularity. So we can talk about flow but in that case only as we can tie it to explicitly to process. We can talk about Goto but only as that helps us open up the topic of repetition that we will discuss aesthetically. In other words, can you recast this not as a lesson in computing but possessing the basic elements that has been aestheticized (in the arts) and theorized (Truchet & Gombrich) and made possible by the history of computing (square CRT).

So I guess what we need here is to establish the structure of regularity and looping and then to argue that they have long relevant histories outside of CS. Don't get me wrong, we can mention specific concepts in computing -- but we need to only mention the ones that speak to how 10 PRINT is like the things that show up later in the chapter.

At the end of the section we can raise the question about its antecedents in the arts and that will lead into the chapter.