I found a pretty neat version of the game of life in 3D:

http://www.people.nnov.ru/fractal/Life/Game.htm

It's sorta mindbending, but worth a look.

I finished the whole book and I liked the easy to read and descriptive nature of The Bug. I know little about computer programming, but I like how some information about it was incoporated into the book. I don't think The Bug is cybertext though because it required little effort to read since narration simply alternated between Roberta and Ethan. There are no choices about what paths can be taken in The Bug. The book must be read from start to finish exactly in order for it to make sense to the reader.

I'm half-way through The Bug, and I'll agree that it's a pretty easy read.

I think that the descriptions of the programming process may be a tad melodramatic though: compiling and re-compiling isn't nearly the cycles of deconstruction and reconstruction that the book makes it out to be.

There is truth in the way that the book depicts a single bug expanding to become a bane of existence though; the worst thing that can happen to a programmer is when the computer, an archetype of logical processes, does not behave with that crystal clarity.

I do believe that code can be considered writings, though. For example http://ioccc.org/2001/jason.c is a text adventure in the C programming language that is crafted to not contain a single recognizable keyword.

For more information about obfuscated C text adventure linked above, see http://ioccc.org/2001/jason.hint