Le 2012-03-05 à 09:07:00, Lorenzo Sutton a écrit :
On 05/03/12 01:43, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
Le 2012-03-03 à 22:54:00, Lorenzo Sutton a écrit :
You can create a midi output, with all the drawbacks and benefits. As far
as I know there is no lilypond "player", but to be totally honest I'm not
sure it would make so much sense as lilypond is primarily a music
typesetting language.
Do you also mean it doesn't make much sense to use PureData for anything
else than audio ?
No, nor I see the logic by which you assume I mean that from the above
statement.
Think of sentences like « It doesn't make much sense to use X as a Y
because X is primarily a Z »...
And computers were only meant for doing math, too.
Indeed they are.
And I don't think "math" is anything dirty, with less dignity than other
disciplines, or to be ashamed of.
I'm not alluding to that, I mean how computers aren't often used to
explicitly doing math, whereas in the 1930's, the most newfangled user
interface of the computer was a paper tape on which you'd punch
machine-language directly, and you explicitly put numbers in and got
numbers out, if you turned the crank for long enough.
Nowadays, numbers are still all over the interface, but they're not
necessarily seen as numbers. This is what allows the numbers to become
pixels and sound samples, for example.
Computers are very powerful, yet stupid, calculators. In fact in Italian
we still use the word "calcolatore" to address a computer.
The word «computer» is even stupider, as it's the same root as «counter»,
french «compteur». A computer is just a counter. At least calcolatore
implies it could do other math than just count !
And of course 'computer' itself stems from the French "computer", and in
turn from the Latin "computare". [1]
I think French never had «compute(u)r», it had compte(u)r with a silent p
written only to make it look like latin (the -er suffix is verb, the -eur
suffix is noun). This dropping of «pu» in French is where English's
«counter» comes from. French also has a quite rare word «comput» (without
suffix and without corresponding verb), which might have inspired the
English word, though it's also possible that English took it directly from
Latin.
(But the word for «computer» in French is entirely different : in the 50's
or 60's, «ordinateur» got coined using an metaphor of sorting things out,
putting *order* into things.)
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