[DUG] Delphi Developers wanted

[Ross Levis]

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-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at 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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