How do you choose a music notation package? This question was asked of me recently. Having played with a number of different packages for various reasons over the years, here are some suggestions about what you should consider when choosing your package.
Kicking off a series of thoughts on programming languages.
Assembly language is slightly higher level than the raw 0’s and 1’s of machine code- there is the immediacy of cause-and-effect: write an instruction to set a bit on an output port and you can see the instruction being executed.
OpenCalais (powered by Thomson Reuters) is an enabling technology for the semantic web (or Web 3.0 or something). I will express an interest – at the time of writing I am employed by Thomson Reuters. However, I’m trying out the OpenCalais web server to get some idea of how it …