A couple of highlights...
There were a few intelligent comments by those who had read the article,
mostly correcting those who hadn't. I won't bother reproducing them
here though.
A suggestion for grade number 9, perhaps:
"I think this is amongst the most pathetic, nerdy things I have read in
a long time. No wonder we have bad perceptions in the public eye. What
next I wonder? Masturbating in time to the squeals that a modem makes?"
I quite liked this comment:
> I've found the experiences of dancing and programming to have
> a great deal in common.
Yeah me too, I don't always know what I'm doing but I have a great deal
of fun doing it.
A more generally interesting thing is that within two minutes of the
article appearing, someone had written a fairly long comment about the
Perl programming language. It seems to me as though this was an
automated response by a bot. A trollbot, perhaps grabbing comments from
other stories based on keywords. It was very successful anyway, getting
a score of 5, set to "interesting," and a huge number of responses,
despite being very little to do with the subject of the article... In
fact it seemed to be in response to a story about mobile phones.
But after reading through all the comments, there's only one that is
particularly interesting to us. It's worth putting on the timeline,
shame it's an anonymous post. I love the final sentence.
I wrote code on stage in xlisp and a midi control layer I wrote myself
back 'around 87. This was on an amiga 1000. I was actually wearing a
guitar when I called medium level functions to generate sound, which I
then played over.
(The project was called masked men and purveyed a mix of both
experimental and pop/dance oriented music)
I thought at the time I might have been the only person to have written
code/lisp code, but I posted about it on venerable online system "the
well" when I joined in 1990 and somebody said they'd written lisp on
stage in the 70s.
Maybe with a guitar strapped on. heh.
The music had to work around garbage collection, which I forced at the
end of phrases.
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Received on Sat Sep 04 2004 - 09:03:50 BST