Megranium

My story is somewhat different ... it took me more than 25 years to get passionate about programming.

I started the first experiments with BASIC around the age of 12, took programming lessons, but never really knew what to do with it. After I finished my B.Sc. in CS, I hated it with a passion for a while.

I only started getting passionate about it when I discovered computer music and that I can make my own music software, around the age of 30 or so.

Interesting that you percieve it that way. Like, accents becoming dialects, not the other way round. I'd think "dialects" like lower german, Plattdeutsch, Bavarian etc. are older than current standard German, and what remains of them are the accents.

That being said, especially in rural areas, the dialects are well kept. In fact, being from the western regions of Germany, I have a hard time understanding villagers from the Black Forest if they talk their native dialect.

Still, in urban areas, the general trend is the same, no ? Dialects are spoken by less and less people (in fact I don't speak a single word of Plattdeutsch, even if I'm from an area where it was once common). What remains are temporary sociolects and accents. At least that's my perception of things.

I'd say if you want to make it last learn how to apply it.

Music theory is one of these things I learned multiple times (even as a minor in University) and forgot multiple times.

The theory I learned, though, was never really relevant to my artistic work, whether it was playing guitar music or making electronic music. Whenever I tried writing something based on the theory I learned, I found it to be super boring. Thus, to this day, music theory doesn't make a lot of "sense" to me.

Thus, I'd say if you want to learn music theory, try to make it part of a creative process. Learn something new and try to write a little piece based on that, and so on. That way, it gives you creative tools instead of just being boring.

This topic comes around every couple of months, here and elsewhere.

I tried to run some of my CL stuff in JSCL, but the browser just froze, so I quickly gave up on that. Guess it can't handle more complex stuff.

I wonder if someone ever tried to compile a C-based CL implementation (like sbcl) to WebAssembly (i.e. using emscripten) ? I'd be surprised if nobody ever tried that, but I never read any reports regarding success or failure.