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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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