[wodenokoto]

It is pretty cool that you can program a song in code, but it looks awfully verbose.

Do people really compose this way?

[novocaine]

no.

well, live-coders do by definition .. but for everyone else, it's just an ineffective way to work, even if you are a good programmer.

people really do use graphical programming tools like max/msp.

[noib]

yes, they do.