10 Print Chr$(205.5+Rnd(1)); : Goto 10

This book takes a single line of code -- the extremely concise BASIC
program for the Commodore 64 inscribed in the title -- and uses it as a lens through
which to consider the phenomenon of creative computing and the way computer programs
exist in culture. The authors of this collaboratively written book treat code not as
merely functional but as a text -- in the case of 10 PRINT, a
text that appeared in many different printed sources -- that yields a story about
its making, its purpose, its assumptions, and more. They consider randomness and
regularity in computing and art, the maze in culture, the popular BASIC programming
language, and the highly influential Commodore 64 computer.