I meant to speak in a slight scientific philosophical way as in to
determine what the "direction of the research" in this specific group of
people might be, referring to the more general "logic of research" or
"systematic IT behaviour" I have often observed.
> But perhaps it depends
> on some very specific idea of what the "collective software world" is.
Preferably a perfectly random sample of java-applet builders (I enjoy a
few of those, no misunderstanding), C and other serious and fundamental
language programmers in hobby, industrial and government/defense worlds,
and perhaps script maintainers for a various types of education
institutes, and what else there is in the great wide world of
"programmers", and all of which of course was hopelessly "tempted" or
whatever appropriate term by groups of people aspiring for more power in
there than their merits or reasonable ambitions warrant.
I meant that the thought "programming is power because.." has (at least
by me) been found to be seldom all too correct, and that that pertains
to philosophical and scientific general truths, too.
I mean, if I'd leave it to and IT type of "programmer" fellow human
being to come up with a manner to solve for all the currents and
voltages in an electrical circuit, the outcomes wouldn't very exhilarate
me, already before the attempt would start...
And if I then would inspect the progress of such a project, I'd find
that the IT-ish programmers have little sense of personal hono(u)r and
lofty thoughts about life in general, and certainly therefore not about
music. Thus, I cannot imagine a decent software DSP discussion without
people feeling their private musical tastes half raped to death unless
the participants observe such issue, or everybody has a very
constitution and stomach.
It's like discussing Open Source software with mr R. Stallman: there are
few people who contributed more, but few people inthe "wrong" IT corner
will even respect that fact.
So I'm all for a "Gödel, Escher, Bach"- type of discussion, but it's
hard to believe whole groups of people wouldn't dearly love to monkey a
specific feedback mathematical equation to create more disputable music
with, and I'm against that because I know those same people will have
little self control. That doesn't stop me from observing the whole world
of Open Suorse appears to reside under a cloud of challenges for even
small type of jobs to be done, which cloud contains huge
skill-challenges normally only justified in a heavy engineering
education (which I did follow). I don't like that situation.
Theo V.
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