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## Christopher Strachey's Love Letters
## ✍️ Christopher Strachey's Love Letters
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<img src="https://git.le-club-des-sans-sujets.org/gauthiier/Revisiting-Concepts-Notations-Software-Art/media/branch/main/img/Strachey-Mark1.png" width="100%"/>
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So now that we have a better understanding of how arrays, indices, randomness, and functions work, let's write love letters!
One of the first non-scientific computer programme that was ever written is Christopher Strachey's Love Letters programme for the Manchester Mark I (so called [Baby](https://content.presspage.com/uploads/1369/1920_themanchestermk1computerbuiltbyextendingthebaby.jpg?10000)). In fact, this computer programme (making use of randomness) is arguably the first art-inspired programme! Christopher Strachey was a computer programming pioneer who worked along Alan Turing in the very early days of computing at the University of Manchester. Strachey's story is amazing and there is a great article about [him and the love letters in Rhizome's Queer History of Computing](https://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/apr/9/queer-history-computing-part-three/) written by Jacob Gaboury.