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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Music while in a coding session...
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 11:43:15 -0700
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On 7/18/2024 12:31 AM, David Brown wrote:
> On 17/07/2024 22:42, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
>> On 7/17/2024 12:45 AM, David Brown wrote:
>>> On 17/07/2024 02:07, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>> On 7/15/2024 7:53 PM, John McCue wrote:
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This is OT, usually I would ignore, but :)
>>>>>
>>>>> I have never done that over the many decades I have
>>>>> been a programmer.  I would suggest you do no more then
>>>>> say 12 hours straight.  Mistakes will happen plus, this
>>>>> will affect your health.
>>>>>
>>>>> Just a friendly warning.
>>>>
>>>> Not OT, most programmers love music.  The arithmetic of music draws 
>>>> our attention to it.
>>
>> What about using C++ to create music (say, MIDI for now) that you can 
>> listen to while creating other music and/or other fun things indeed?
>>
> 
> What about not posting random youtube links at all?

They are not random... I used to give a link without any title 
information. So that was bad.


> Please understand the topicality of these groups - then you can make a 
> conscious decision to stretch the topicality if you think it is 
> appropriate, instead of just spilling every stray thought that passes 
> through your head.  (Again - I personally am not as rigid about sticking 
> to topicality as some regulars, but I think it is important not to get 
> carried away, and it is important to know when something is not even 
> close to topical.  Technical groups need to maintain a level of focus or 
> they either disappear entirely, or descend into cesspits like 
> sci.electronics.design.)

Have you ever written a C++ program to generate music in wav and/or midi 
form? It's great fun, and is also able to make an n-ary field "dance" to 
it. For some reason I always start with creating an algorithm for 
percussion wrt midi. This sets the "main beat" for everything else to 
follow...

Fwiw, here is an example called 3d Field Test (ver:0.0.2) where the 
field lines respond to the music. It's rather crude, but works:

https://youtu.be/yZbO0314gRo


> These groups are about the /languages/ C and C++.  They are not about 
> programs that happen to be written in those languages, and certainly not 
> about what was created using programs that happened to be written in 
> those languages.
> 
> So if you've written a program in C++, it is topical to discuss 
> particular aspects of the code that you think were hard, or interesting, 
> or that you have questions about, or that use unusual techniques that 
> you want to share with others.  The complete program is not topical, nor 
> are its uses.
> 
> Can you appreciate the difference?
> 

Yes. Well, I am now trying to give the titles the youtube links I post, 
did you notice that? They are not random. Creating a percussion using 
say, mod, can be fun. Creating interesting drum beats. Using different 
tracks with midi channel 10 can be used to separate the percussion 
instruments.

Humm... I wonder if the music that C++ coders tend to listen to might be 
different that the music Java programmers listen to? Interesting in a sense?

Keeping all of this contained in this thread should be easy for others 
to just block, ignore, ect...?