On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 16:42 +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote:
> I agree, and also programming != text...
You mean like al-jazari? I think a sequence of icons is text. Or do
you mean like PD/Max? A patch is text as well, but with word order
indicated with directional lines.
I find it very difficult to explain live coding to someone who does not
know what coding is. It's easy to find yourself describing it in terms
of what it isn't, which is useless if your audience doesn't know what a
compiler is.
I made text the starting point, because everyone knows what that is
(otherwise they wouldn't be reading the essay), and everyone knows what
lists of instructions are. However I'm very happy to see alternatives.
alex
Received on Fri Jun 01 2007 - 17:15:10 BST