Re: [livecode] questions...

From: Julian Rohrhuber <rohrhuber_at_uni-hamburg.de>
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 20:20:34 +0200

>Hi all,
>
>A coupla questions...

you are touching sensitive points.. :)

>Where do you stand on the use of genetic programming for performance? Is this
>under the same category as live coding - the difference being that you grow
>the code rather than write it?

I would say that this is just simply a special type of algorithm. So
it is one extreme of live coding - doing nothing and just letting the
algorithm develop.
As long as it is all redeable...

>Also, what is the definition of code? Is it text only, what about graph based
>languages? (max/msp, pd, modular synths - or even UML?) They can often be
>appreciated more by a non programmer audience, and look pretty to boot.

this is a difficult question. There can be no simple answer to it and
I think it shows that language is a riddle.
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