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bayindirh • yesterday at 10:55 AM • 6 replies • view on HN

The great irony is they still sport their "Code is Poetry" mantra on their website [0].

If code is poetry, Wordpress is a new genre of it, probably?

[0]: https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Philosophy

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ralferoo • yesterday at 10:59 AM

Vogon Poetry [1]?

[1] https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Vogon_poetry

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chrismorgan • yesterday at 1:43 PM

If code is poetry, WordPress was written by William McGonagall <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McGonagall>.

tiborsaas • yesterday at 1:03 PM

They could just go a bit more honest and migrate to "Code is pasta". WP is also closer to a pizza slice than Michelin star fine dining experience.

Yokolos • yesterday at 11:05 AM

They never said it was good poetry

bell-cot • yesterday at 10:58 AM

Ask an old English teacher whether "poetry" implies anything favorable about quality.