Good point! Programming language can be harder to learn. I totally agree with it. With a hardware, you can easily make some sound. But on the other hand, langua

Good point! Programming language can be harder to learn. I totally agree with it. With a hardware, you can easily make some sound. But on the other hand, languages are free and we can make the docs and videos so that the learning curve can be less steep. I would be amazed if one without any previous experience can master, say Mother-32, even with manuals and tutorials. Also, the way I design Glicol (graph-oritend live coding language) is actually against normal programming paradigms such as FP or OOP. I always let my students to hear and see how an audio node works. I would call it as an instrument-design perspective. This may also lower the learning bar. And to compare programming languages with hardware tools, I can also mention the logic loop. For example, you can easily duplicate 100 oscillators in live coding but generally impossible to achieve with hardware synth.