On 17 January 2013 19:29, David Barbour <dmbarbour_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Live programming is at least as much a function of IDE, API, and program
> architecture as the programming language itself.
Yes, actually in broad discussions of programming HCI, I consider all
those to be aspects of "programming language", along with the means of
notation, including secondary notation (comments, syntax colour
highlighting). This is in the same sense that prosody is important to
spoken natural language.
> It seems controlling use of local state is important if we both want rich
> abstraction - i.e. where composite networks can be abstracted - and live
> programming. (cf.
> http://awelonblue.wordpress.com/2012/10/21/local-state-is-poison/)
I enjoy live coding when the only state (apart from the running code)
is time, and where a program uses it like a one-dimensional thread
that it knits into multidimensional musical structures.
My grasp of physics is limited but I understand that time is actually
local state, although establishing a global sense of time through
oscillation might be part of the evolutionary purpose of music..
alex
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