>concerning the main discussion:
>I think one really important factor differentiating playing a guitar
>or a programming language is flow as Csikszentmihalyi [1] defines
>it. ATM we are not able to get into a flow within programming;
>results are still too far away...
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>till
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>[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
Maybe we are more after something like Verfremdung than Immersion? [2]
> When doing livecoding (also with practicing it) there is still a
>big gap between thinking of the thing you might want to do,
>converting it into valid code, write it down and finally send it to
>the interpreter.
The gap that is there, we should try and keep it open, as long as it
is there. Often it disappears far too quickly. Isn't livecoding a way
of reasoning rather than seamless virtuosity?
[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamiliarization
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Received on Tue Sep 05 2006 - 17:05:07 BST