Algorithms – hot in the art world

Very interesting, but personally I would look for some kind of aesthetic beauty in an algorithm, not just a notorious history, before I would consider it "art".

Take this one for example: it is an implementation of the Quicksort algorithm in a programming language called Joy:

    DEFINE qsort ==
       [small]
       []
       [uncons [>] split]
       [enconcat]
       binrec.

For me, it has all the qualities of a programming haiku, poetry in code.