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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. 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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