Yes instead of referencing Bret Victor though, I would have referenced the inventor of the mouse [evil face here, rolls his eyes to highlight sarcasm].
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On 17 Jan 2013, at 15:58, alex <alex_at_lurk.org> wrote:
> Here's what the LIVE 2013 folks have come up with:
> http://liveprogramming.github.com/liveblog/2013/01/13/a-history-of-live-programming.html
>
> I think this is really good.
>
> alex
>
> On 10 January 2013 19:19, Adam Smith <adam_at_adamsmith.as> wrote:
>> My interests are similar to Fabrice's. It's not about performance (in the
>> sense of being on stage), but being able to reconsider and revise a wide
>> spectrum of the music generation pipeline (from abstract composition to DSP)
>> in an exploratory manner without having to re-enter data accumulated along
>> the way or explicitly engineer my own persistence mechanism (saving the
>> current state to files for resuming play later).
>>
>> When I'm applying livecoding techniques outside of music, particularly for
>> game development, making discontinuous edits to control flow logic while
>> keeping a continuous history of state seems to be particularly important.
>> Avoiding a re-compile is a minor benefit compared to not manually re-playing
>> the last minutes/hours of gameplay that lead up to the interesting state of
>> the fictional world I want to alter a tiny bit. As a pathological example,
>> think about what it would be like to add a new building type to SimCity
>> partway through a long play session.
>>
>> On Jan 10, 2013 2:03 AM, "Fabrice Mogini" <fmogini_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> That might well be an interesting distinction and one that could
>>>>>> perhaps benefit the attempt to define what live coding is.
>>>>>> I'm not sure myself, but what do people think?
>>>>
>>>>> As I see things not even live performance is essential for our kind of
>>>>> lovecoding. We might be playing to ourselves for our own enjoyment.
>>>
>>>
>>> I use live coding mainly for composing; in that case, the live aspect is
>>> not about a performance but for bringing
>>> together improvisation and composition.The real-time feedback while
>>> editing code is useful to prevent compositional systems from getting out of
>>> hand and forgetting about perception (eg: serialist techniques).
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