> Another difference with music that strikes me is the
> level of
> abstraction : a note is a note. A line of code
> (especially in a
> imperative setting) is much more than a line of
> code.
But this is exactly what "semantics" is about, or not?
It is the question, when you have a set of symbols
If I remember my EWD's[1] right, whether or not composing music is similar
to writing programs was not Dijkstra's point. I paraphrase (possibly from
another EWD, can't be bothered to look it up):
Computers, in their capacity as a tool, are highly overrated.
Dijkstra was referring to the fa
On 12/13/06, minh thu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Another difference with music that strikes me is the level of
abstraction : a note is a note. A line of code (especially in a
imperative setting) is much more than a line of code. Ok, one can
argue that notes interact together but, imo, not in the
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:07:37 +0100, Kirsten Chevalier
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 12/12/06, Patrick Mulder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Not sure whether this is the right place to discuss
computers and programming in general:
You're implying that there's a *more* appropriate forum somewhere
2006/12/12, Kirsten Chevalier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[snip]
I've been thinking about this. Are there really any programmers who
are like Mozart in the way you describe? Donald Knuth might be one, or
at least, he wrote that he wrote and debugged all of TeX on paper
before entering it into a compute
Hello,
In the spring of 1978, I wrote a (circa) 700-word microprogram for
multiprecision integer arithmetic on paper, typed it into a computer, had it
cleaned of syntax errors by the micro-code assembler, printed it, and spent
much of the summer in my mother's summer house debugging this progra
> You're implying that there's a *more* appropriate
> forum somewhere for
> discussing analogies between music composition and
> programming
> languages? If so, I'd like to know what it is!
Yes, music and programming languages are ultimately
phenomena of our human brains/minds. Therefore, the
exp
On 12/12/06, Patrick Mulder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Not sure whether this is the right place to discuss
computers and programming in general:
You're implying that there's a *more* appropriate forum somewhere for
discussing analogies between music composition and programming
languages? If so,
Not sure whether this is the right place to discuss
computers and programming in general: But Dijkstra's
metaphor is suggesting, that while Beethoven learned
by experiment and debugging compositions, Mozart did
not have a need for reflection while writing down
music ?
The observation above sounds
