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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. Re:Of course... by CableModemSniper · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You realize the "people" he was calling an idiot was himself right? Ok, just checking.

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  2. dumbest thing all day by rtphokie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's going to take a lot to find something dumber and a bigger waste of time than this today.

  3. Re:my code... by j1mmy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    stop posting on slashdot while you're at it. you're not funny.

  4. play it backwards! by John+Harrison · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    "Another one bites(sic) the dust" played backwards disctinctly says "It's fun to smoke marajuana."

    Try it out. If you sing it like Freddie did you can record your own voice and play it backwards and get the same result.

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  5. Re:How's that... by verch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No way, its physically impossible to get a sofa stuck in a stairwell.

  6. Re:Happiness by bowronch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    (dotimes (i 9)
    (jump gun mother-superior))

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  7. My code produced only Megadeth songs... by Michael+Ross · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    99 Ways To Die
    Addicted To Chaos
    Breakpoint
    Disconnect
    Family Tree
    High Speed Dirt
    Problems

    ...and of course...

    Wake Up Dead