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Does Your Debugger Sing to You?

Posted by michael on from the slash-is-a-sweet-sweet-lullaby dept.

ZahrGnosis writes "TRN Mag Online is carrying an article titled Programming tool makes bugs sing. '[The researchers] set up software that mapped pitch and melodic contour information to structural elements in the programming language Pascal. "[We] aimed to see if information about the structure of Pascal programs could be communicated using such musical phrases".' They even found a practical application for software debugging."

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  1. Close Encounters by Winterblink · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sound based debugging + gesture based computing = a future where we work with computers like that cooky french guy from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

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    "I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar."
    -Hoban Washburn
  2. Re:listening experience by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The Linux version is almost there but lacks a certain rhythm and flow to it. All the band members have talent but its attempt to emulate the windows play style takes away from its natural talent for good crisp music. Sort of how the ford F1 was a good looking truck till dodge added a rounded front end and Ford copied it in a bad way. I sort of Like the crisp boxy UI that makes Linux feel so ... UNIX.