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Live Nightclub Hacking

Posted by michael on from the knit-one-perl-two dept.

rjjm writes "Alex Mclean has written a stormin' article at perl.com on Hacking Perl In Nightclubs. Alex programmes live on stage to perform his music."

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  1. There are better languages for this, like ChucK by Trepidity · · Score: 5, Informative

    ChucK is a "concurrent, on-the-fly audio programming language", designed from the ground up precisely for this application: live programming of generative music.

    --
    10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
  2. Re:Perl by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Incorrect.

    cogsci.princeton.edu -
    Program - a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute;

    The text file itself is only a script. The script + interpreter is a full program (also worth nothing that several people have whipped up programs that allows you to compile Perl scripts in to native binaries)