Clojure: The Documentary
57 points by binjip978
57 points by binjip978
I think people underestimate, maybe, that the act of creation is a deeply human act. That it's not "I woke up one day and typed some stuff in". It's not that I happened on a thing. It involves a huge personal effort to explore the ideas, the problems that you're looking to solve, the possible solutions — it's a big investment of self.
Particularly in this day and age, you can generate code, you can generate a novel. If you have something to say that another person, an audience, a viewer, a user is going to find impactful to them, that something to say is human and it is only human.
–Stephanie Hickey
I love these documentaries so much! They're really well-done, and it's fantastic to hear the first-person stories of the actual people involved in making these things.
The overlap of software people and music people is wild, but unsurprising. Writing software and music composition are really really similar.
There's a long history of generative music in Lisp. Common Lisp Music, Open Music, Incudine, OpusModus, Common Music, David Cope's many books on GOFAI music. More recently I discovered trane written in Janet and from the array side, Marshall Lochbaum's doing music with BQN, an array language and Stanley Jordan's been using APL for a long time. - veqq
Yep. I was half-assed involved in livecoding stuff with clojure over 10 years ago using Overtone.