Re: Music while in a coding session...

On 7/16/2024 7:18 AM, Pierre wrote:

In comp.lang.c Chris M. Thomasson <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> wrote:

Does anybody listen to any particular music when there are on, say a 30
hour coding spree, barely any sleep? Fwiw, I remember listening to this
old video game music from Final Fantasy II back in the 90's during code
adventures for sure:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC-y7ViVDNE
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Just wondering... :^)

 I started my bedroom coding journey on a ZX Spectrum+ (BASIC and machine code)
listening to Tangerine Dream and Jean-Michel Jarre. The music was recorded to
cassette from CD, as our only CD player was in the lounge Hi-Fi stack. Through
my Commodre Amiga, SGI IRIX and GNU/Linux coding years I would still listen to
TD and JMJ to get into the 'zone'. My TD and JMJ CDs are now ripped as flac
files on my GNU/Linux PC and played using cmus.
To quote Galen Erso, "It's a peaceful life."

A good friend way back then, 80's, with the first name of Chris, strange, well, his Dad must of worked for Apple or something. He had a lot of of Apple computers. Mac's, Apple ii's, ect... A library of games, ect... Programming at his house was fun. His Dad was into classical music, not really 80's soft rock. He would play it loud, not light. And would sometimes watch me code. Wow. Hid Dad used to love playing this:
Fwiw, all of the visuals in here are from my C++ code:
(Moonlight Sonata)
https://youtu.be/DSiWvF5QOiI
(Ride of the Valkyries)
https://youtu.be/QFPSYsYUKBA
I worked hard on those. Some hours on and end until everything was right.