This article about using sound as a debugging tool is really interesting. Researchers at the University of Northumbria used software that mapped sound to structural elements in the Pascal programming language. For example, they used continuous tones to represent a loop, and they used meter and rhythm to represent differents parts of a program. I don\’t quite understand how it works though. I guess if you\’re listening and you hear something like a wrong note, it\’s a bug? Anyway, it seems like a useful idea.
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