Awatmath.2175
net.music
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!watmath!csc
Wed Mar 31 02:19:33 1982
Music to Code/Design by
I'm interested in what people listen to (if anything) when they are coding
or designing software. I know of people (like myself) who have to have
something to listen to and others than can't stand anything playing while
they work.
To get things going, here are my preferences: while designing, or thinking
about a bug, I like so-called "Ambient Music" (a term coined by Brian Eno
and the basis for his AMBIENT record label, distributed in Canada by Polygram,
and an interesting topic in itself). This music is generally played at
low to moderate volume, and drifts in and out of one's consciousness.
For coding, I like something fairly fast that I know well-- this keeps me
from being bored yet can be ignored when it has to be. This preference may
be due to my having to put up with primitive programming systems, however
(this is not a comment on Unix; I do most of my work on other systems).
If there's response, I'll try to be more specific (and comprehensive)
with respect to my preferences.
peter rowley, univ. of waterloo computer science club (decvax!watmath!csc)
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