What exactly is "Recreational Programming"?

Is it programming with a recrational touch to it? Sort of like wearing branded white-sportswear and tennis shoes while coding in Smalltalk?

Or is it the name of a new and sexy reality show from Silicon Valley featuring pizza-and-coke-guzzling fat and sweaty programmers hitting it off with online chicks in the familiar and homely backdrop of an IRC channel? Highly unlikely. Sort of like this:

<Kazz> Do vampires have anuses? Cause that's why I wouldn't let this kid

invade a vampire's anus in this RPG, right, I was GMing, and his character

was an Anus Shade, with the power to possess and control the anuses of

people and animals.. and I figured that vampires don't have anuses.



<Zaratustra> a vampire's anus is present, but non-working.



<Zaratustra> like a network card without the appropriate driver.



<Kazz> Wow. You're the biggest dork on Earth.



<Sharkey> And you're DMing an rpg with Anus Shades.

Err...maybe. I for one don't know but am ready to whack my bush if I have to to find out.

So here goes...welcome (I guess)!