I was considered near the top of my class in Music at high school, only based on listening tests and detecting differences in tone. Perhaps that is why I got into software developmentJ I now write software for music scheduling and playback/automation for radio stations.
Ross. From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of John Bird Sent: Monday, 29 June 2009 1:18 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi Developers wanted The irony is I didn't study computer science - it was hardly around at the time. There was a room where graduate students went to put their research into IBM punch cards - but only a few were ever allowed access to that room. The rest of us used the desktop calculators - I used to go to the zoololgy department because the one there had 3 memories as opposed to the usual two....otherwise we used slide rules. I still have mine, a Faber Castell. It has mould on it though... Oddly enough a brain that has learnt the rules of classical music harmony is well placed to do well with computer programming. I don't know if it has been formally researched, but I have heard many people comment this. I think its because the rules of classical harmony are as least as intricate as computer languages, even though the whole craft is only for doing very good design where the craft is not at all important to to user (listener in this case). But we digress...in real life I am debugging why I am getting the wrong element from a string list when doing something in a transaction... John
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