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Who are the anticodians?

Anticodians is a critical code studies reading group from the antipodes. We meet fortnightly to read code slowly, picking through the source line-by-line to understand how and why it was written the way it was.

We are readers, rather than engineers, though some of us enjoy engineering too.

If you would like to join us, please use the form below. This will add you to our groups.io mailing list.

We’re currently reading

Come back in 2025 to see our next juicy text. It will be something to do with GenAI…

We have read

Donald Ervin Knuth, “Literate Programming,” The Computer Journal 27, no. 2 (1984): 97–111.

10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10: Just the program, but the book is well worth it.