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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 gwernol · · Score: 1, Troll

    "lug", noun:

    1) Idiot who posts so fast he mis-spells "luck" as "lug".

    2) Fool who should learn to use the Preview button.

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  2. Sing along urls by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    haich tee tee pee co long slash slash double you double you double you dee oh tee gee oh eh tee ess de oh tee sea ex slash haich e el el oh de oh tee jay pee gee

  3. Why Pascal? by ehudokai · · Score: 0, Troll
    Why couldn't they have done this for a language that someone actually uses, like C/C++ or Java.

    I would love some help in debugging C/C++ code.

    But debugging pascal, they might as well have a dead man singing.

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  4. Practical Applications by CaptainCarrot · · Score: 0, Troll
    They even found a practical application for software debugging

    Now if only someone would find a practical application for Pascal...

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