interesting article...thanks...
I remember when I was studying software engineering,
that often comparison to other engineering practices
and methodologies were used. The one I most remember
is that people don't just go out and try and build a
bridge, let it fall down, and try again. And this is
why requirements analysis, specification, design,
implementation was needed. It would prove too
expensive and dangerous else.
I was always thinking that if I could build a bridge
like I could write code, then I would. And with CAD,
perhaps you now can.
Software engineering practice has borrowed methologies
from other engineering practices, and assumed that is
how it should work. In many ways it has been
sucessful, but has tending to repress other
methodologies and practices.
I was also wondering about comparison to performance
of music. I kind of think of live coding compared to
improvised music, more than performance of pre-scored
music even if awareness and adaption of what you are
doing is needed.
I can see dimensions
enduser programming <----->professsional programming
improvised realtime programming <----- > non real
time, needs to get finished after 10 months type
programming
regards,
paul
--- Nick Collins <nc272_at_cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> hi all,
>
> Alan Blackwell and I wrote a paper on 'The
> Programming Language as a
> Musical Instrument' from the perspective of human
> computer interaction,
> which I've made public here in case anyone is
> curious:
>
>
http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~nc272/papers/pdfs/proglangasmusicinstr.pdf
>
> It's for the Psychology of Programming Interest
> Group conference at the end
> of this month where Alan is presenting it and will
> hopefully show Ade's
> TOPLAP video on our behalf.
>
> btw, I contributed the central parts waffling about
> laptop music, live
> coding history, and the ChucK (pre Audicle) vs
> Ableton Live analysis, plus
> a bit at the end about maintenance. All the rest is
> Alan's hard work. It's
> written for HCI people so might be a bit entry level
> on music issues for
> some points.
>
> best,
> N
>
>
>
....................................................................................
http://www.fexia.com
http://www.robotsoftware.co.uk
http://www.nicetoanimals.org
http://www.sindi-entes.org - artificial musician project
...........with
http://www.isbellmusica.com
http://www.fexia.com/livecode.html - liveCodeDSP audio/midi (in progress)
.....................................................................................
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
http://mail.yahoo.com
Received on Fri Jun 10 2005 - 18:24:36 BST