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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Yaxu (talk | contribs) at 22:30, 6 February 2013 (Real time computing). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

This redirect does not make sense, it is taking a subset for the whole. See discussion on Talk:Computer_music -- 24 December 2008, User:Atoll

Ok I've resurrected it with non-music specific content and some references to support notability. There are more magazine etc references still to dig out. I deleted the TOPLAP entry in the process and redirected it here. I haven't touched the Computer_music entry yet beyond linking here, which needs editing to make it focus on the music specific aspects of live coding. Yaxu (talk) 22:50, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think the live coding environments list should be in alphabetical order, but in a table so we can categorise them according to e.g. base language, interface style, license, live coding style etc. Yaxu (talk) 11:44, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ludum Dare, 48h coding competition

Creating game in 48 hours in front of thousands of viewers. Is this live coding? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYBUCYUNn3Q (Notch coding "Escape" - 20.8.2011 livestream) Handscale1 (talk) 08:47, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The video has gone but if it's the one I am thinking of, I believe uses java debugging to hotswap functions, in which case definitely. Yaxu (talk) 17:30, 20 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Real time computing

I do not understand why someone is trying to relate live coding to real time computing in this article, without justification, reference or any reason that I can think of. I asked for an explanation in an edit comments which was ignored, so I'm doing it again here.

As I said in my edit comment, live coding does not involve direct manipulation so low latency is not at all an issue.

The RTC link goes to a subsection of the real-time computing article "Real-time and high-performance", I can't see what that has to do with live coding.

Yaxu (talk) 16:19, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. I've removed the real time notion from the article. Some live programmers may use real-time systems, but it is not a defining property of live programming. Pygy (talk) 13:38, 26 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
How does live coding have much to do with live programming at all? I'm talking about "live programming" according to how Christopher Hancock defines it in his dissertation (http://llk.media.mit.edu/papers/ch-phd.pdf), which is the first mention of term that was subsequently accepted by the HCI/PL communities. 131.107.0.76 (talk) 08:03, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
They have a lot to do with each other, in that live coders create and use live programming languages. Furthermore, live coding research has a history of engagement with HCI/PL communities. If "live programming" is now emerging as a distinct concept, then I'd support a new page on it, with appropriate cross-referencing. I think it would need good justification to avoid a future messy merge though.. Problematically, "coding" and "programming" are synonyms, and indeed "live coding" and "live programming" has been used interchangeably for the past ten years. Perhaps it would be clearer if the new page was called "Live programming languages"? Yaxu (talk) 15:16, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I've had a good look at that thesis, really interesting but also very relevant to live coding, which is no stranger to dataflow programming, including in text based languages. Where do you think the disconnect lies? Yaxu (talk) 22:30, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Video

It was taking up a lot of space, which I found made the article unwieldy, so I made it a thumbnail. Yaxu (talk) 21:51, 18 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Live Notation at the Arnolfini

This might be a useful example performance

Live artists and live coders, working towards live notation

http://livenotation.org/

27th July 2012, Arnolfini, Bristol

http://new-supercollider-mailing-lists-forums-use-these.2681727.n2.nabble.com/Live-Notation-Unit-at-the-Arnolfini-27th-July-2pm-9-30pm-td7580436.html

Andy Dingley (talk) 09:08, 17 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]