Some research at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle is looking at ways to reduce bugs in code. Specifically, a few researchers have converted Pascal code into sound, allowing students to find bugs more easily.
The research doesn't appear to be online or in print (yet). Based on the news story, I suspect that its easier for the ear to pick up repeated patterns (obiwan errors, malloc without a free, etc.) than it is to see those patterns reading code -- especially in large bodies of code.
This code sucks! Too much saxamaphone and not enough tubamaba!
Re:Old news
ziggy on 2002-09-05T22:23:45
Oops. I stopped reading Slashdot about a month and a half ago, except as an RSS feed.:-)
I used to actually enjoy listening to DeCSS while I worked.
