MAKING music out of computer code is helping programmers to catch the bugs that can cause software to go awry.
Computer code is often prone to errors that are difficult to spot. In a long program, made perhaps of hundreds or thousands of lines of programming language code, it’s possible for the writer to misjudge how the various elements of the software will work together.
So-called debugging software can iron this out, by letting people look at a graphical representation of a program. This helps find bugs by highlighting which parts of a program are communicating with others.
But the…
