3 tours

Guided tours

The catalogue tells you what is here. A tour tells you what to look at first, and why the next thing follows from it. Each one can be read in a few minutes or walked through the rooms, and both are the same argument.

  1. A first visit6 works · 6 rooms

    One work from each room, in the order the corridor runs — the shortest walk that shows what the museum is for.

    Hall of First Words → Gallery of Patterns → Hall of Composition → Gallery of Methods → Hall of the Commons → Cabinet of Curiosities

  2. hello, world in seven languages7 works · 1 room

    The same twelve characters in C, Python, Lua, Rust, COBOL, x86-64 assembly and Brainfuck, walked in an order that turns the joke into an argument.

    Hall of First Words

  3. What the book got right6 works · 2 rooms

    Six patterns from 1994, thirty years on: which ones dissolved into the language, which became keywords, and which are still doing the work.

    Gallery of Patterns → Hall of Composition