If programming languages were music instruments…
This post is inspired by this blog post by Nathan Rice . Wich talks about if programming languages were cars .
Me and my friends from work liked it very much , and we have imagined , how will programming languages look like if they were musical instruments ?
In our toughs we tried to capture the spirit of the language and the instrument itself , also just for our entertainment .
Assembler :
Very basic stuff , but experienced players can do pretty serious things with it … Damn you can even play it with a pair of spoons and an empty pot .
C
Sticks to basics , still needs experienced pair of hands ..
C++
Basics x2 …
C#
Tries to give a modern look to the old ideas ..
Java
Some older musicians may find it fun to play on concerts … but me , home ? really ??!
Basic
Keeps it simple with very pleasant music in the right hands…
VisualBasic
Yes i will buy this game to play it …
JavaScript
Had a feeling of a game , but people started doing pretty serious things with it ..
Perl
Gives a feeling like the angels them selves have been playing on it .
Erlang
You need to be pretty serious motherf*er to play on that .. but once you know how to play , its gorgeous .
Haskell
Where did you get this thing ? How do i play it ?
PHP
Does the job with many fancy stuff …
Python
Nice and elegant , can play snake music !!!
Ruby
Some find it more romantic …
Shell Scripting
Very simple .. but some people find it to be a very spiritual instrument …
Go
This one is taking an interesting approach .
Brainfuck
Well this makes some noise , but i want to see you playing music with it !
This were the languages that we are familiar with , so we cannot judge on other languages that exist .. Feel free to post your comments , i will add your suggestions to this list to make it complete .
Remember , this is only our point of view as we see the things . you may feel that some instruments represent their related languages wrong .
Posted on June 11, 2012, in Uncategorized and tagged if programming, programming languages, programming music. Bookmark the permalink. 3 Comments.

















Wow, what a fantastic musical blog. These instruments are so unique!
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