This is frikkin hilarious. I love it.
>To pull things in the opposite direction, here's quite an arduous way of
>programming that highlighting the machine step, coding with boxes and
>lines, in ASCII.
>
> *------------------------*
> | .--------. \
> .-x--------. | osc~ 5 | *
> | osc~ 500 | `-x------' |
> `-x--------' | |
> | .-x------. |
> | | *~ 300 | |
> | `-x------' |
> *---* | |
> | *------------*
> .-x------.
> | *~ 0.2 |
> `-x------'
> |
> *
> |\
> | *
> | |
> .-x-x--.
> | dac~ |
> `------'
> http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~ma503am/alex/textual-patching/
>
>You can define pd objects and connect them together. Layout is
>preserved as well. Much like in ghostbusters, you can't cross the
>lines, and there isn't syntax for different box types (messages and
>numbers). Fixing this would be short work, but I ran out of train
>journey :)
>
>Sadly you can't do live patching with it, but perhaps this could be a
>starting point for thinking about more interesting ways of programming
>with text.
>
>alex
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