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in thread Should I upload it on CPAN?

Isn't it amazing how technology is giving us ever more powerful ways of creating unbelievable (and unintelligible) complexity from simplicity.

The same twelve tone western scale that allows Handel's music for the royalfireworks, Beethoven's symphonies, and Mozart also allows autotuned and sampled radio pop performed by talentless hacks. You can (rightly) decry the latter without diminishing the former.

Then again, Liszt would have fit right into the LA party scene.

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Re^6: Should I upload it on CPAN?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Feb 24, 2012 at 18:45 UTC

    That is a studiously osbcure retort, but an interesting analogy none the less.

    When some techo-hack scratches The Crazy Frog together with a jazz-rap fusion that sampled a movie soundtrack that had a Country&Western band playing Ballade No.2 in B minor on an autoharp and slide guitar, no one has to go back and try to debug Liszt's original score.

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      ... no one has to go back and try to debug Liszt's original score.

      A fair point: there's a craft to programming, one which becomes more obvious when someone has to maintain that code. No one has to figure out the dominant tonality of Tristan und Isolde.

      Then again, the nice part of working in a craft—especially one both malleable and empirical as programming—is that you can turn something from a spectacular mess into something maintainable.

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