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Michal Seta wrote:

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> Well, I must be a different race of a classical musician.  I have been

> trained as a classical musician and I've been trained to read the

> black dots with beams people call scores.  However, a score is only a

> representation of music.  The same music could be represented in

> different ways.  As a guitarist I have learnt to play from a guitar

> score, piano score, lead sheet, modern guitar tablature and

> medieval/rennaissance tablature (of which there were 2 kinds).  These

> are all valid representations of musical compositions and they all

> have strengths and weaknesses.  Any piece of music (as long as it's

> within the traditional 12 tone equal temperament) can be represented

> using any of the above methods.  So why not text?  Entering textual

> representation of music and following certain _markup_ rules is not

> programming.  If it were so, simply scoring should be considered

> programming, too.

Yes, in my mind, "programming" requires the existance of conditions and

(possibly backward) branches.
Chris