Re: [livecode] Wtf is live coding?

From: David Barbour <dmbarbour_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 08:52:34 +0000

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015, 1:35 AM Rob Myers <rob_at_robmyers.org> wrote:

> That's realtime coding, then.
>

That term is not widely used. If you can popularise it, without creating
confusions with real time computing and programming of hard or soft real
time systems, then maybe I'll find it acceptable. Good luck with that.


> We already have a constraint there (time). I think that
> time-in-front-of-an-audience is a more accurate one.
>

If you control a squadron of killer robots, you certainly have an audience.
They just aren't intended to appreciate it.

For performance, an audience forges a relationship to the real world, real
risks for fumbling, real rewards for success. But the live coder's
experience is similar when it's some other relationship keeping things real.

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