New Scientist: Musical approach helps programmers catch bugs
Will Knight, New Scientist: “Making music out of computer code is helping programmers to catch the bugs that can cause software to go awry. [The system was tested] on 22 computer science students [who] had to find errors in a buggy program by scrolling through the code. But some of them could hear a musical representation of the program at the same time. Overall, those who “heard” the code identified more bugs.” (Via Rajesh Babu.)