On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 06:01:38PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Paul Winkler wrote:
> > regexps at sixty paces? :)
 
(output of /dev/random snipped)

Aack! I concede! Please don't hurt me no more!
 
> enforced indenting would completely ruin this code :)

That was already about as ruined as I care to imagine. :)
 
> more seriously, i look forward to all these different scripting languages
> coming together in the future - i think you can already embed perl in
> python and python in perl.  further, there is much talk of parrot, the new
> virtual machine which perl 6 will be based on, supporting python, ruby and
> java as well.  http://www.parrotcode.org for details.

Yes, I've been hearing about this lately - I think it's going to be A
Good Thing for all. I'm very curious to see what Perl 6 will end up
looking like.

> > This sounds cool. Do you go across a network because you want multiple
> > human users involved, or does it somehow make it easier for you to do
> > what you want by yourself?
> 
> both.  i collaborate with adrian ward as 'slub'.  he wrote our software
> synthesiser (http://stub.org/MSG/) and writes mainly realbasic
> applications under macos that also sync and communicate via the server.

Oh, cool - so both of you are interacting with one synth using
different languages? Can I play? :)
 
BTW, I just looked at that page - what's up with this??

 bgcolor=#dddddd
 text=#e4e4e4

If I hadn't looked at the source, I'd never have known anything was
there - on my laptop, the text is invisible unless I look at it from a
severe angle.

Thanks for the description of your evolving drum machine, I'd like to
hear some output from it.

> i think for this code you'd have to understand how it works to a great
> extent before you could make it produce interesting loops.  i could be
> wrong though, i'll try feeding it random parameters sometime.
> 
> as for the passive listener, i am unsure but feel the best way to
> appreciate music is as something seperate from the compositional
> process...  i mean, i don't think reading the code would help enjoy the
> music.  but again, that's down to the individual listener.

That's generally how I think too. I was just curious whether your
personality analogy was audible as such - I would tend to assume not,
but wanted your thoughts on the matter first.

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