Ask Slashdot: What Music do you Code By?

Silas writes "I value music as an important part of the coding/debugging/designing process, and choosing what music to listen to while working on a given piece of code can be as subtle and interesting a process as choosing what data structure or regular expression to use. My personal selection varies from Mozart to Happy Rave, Dave Matthews Band to Enigma, but I'm interested to know what members of the larger coding community listen to when they're doing their thing, getting in the zone. What music do you code by?" Ah. I like nothing less than coding to a good progressive Drum 'N Bass song. What about you all?

Comments

Music?

[Yarn]

I just cat my source to the sound card!

cat somelameproject/*.c > /dev/audio

***bzzt*crackle***

It doesnt last very long tho'

A metacomment, if you will.

[Black Parrot]

This topic has quickly garnered far more than the average number of responses (over 400 when I first saw it), but the response tree is very flat -- it looks like 97% of the responses are top-level responses.

It seems that everyone wants to get their two obols in, but hardly anyone cares what anyone else is saying. [Not to imply that I'm any different!]

Actually, it looks like a poll where all the votes have to be write-in votes. A nice idea, in fact, though we need a pattern matcher to go through and generate summary results. [Are you reading, Rob?]

It would be nice to start doing polls like this: generate a free-for-all like the current one, run stats on it after a few days, and then post the summary in the (former) "poll" box, for further discussion of the actual results.

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