It is worth reflecting on that music and musical representations are not only the basis of computing and computer language, the oldest (by far) language driven machines were musical devices the music box is nothing but a cylinder with binary code, moving from cylinders to cards, to disks, and to piano rolls, and finally to virtual piano rolls--

except for the fact that the medium has evolved since the binary code was developed in about the 15th century, that we can now edit the "piano roll", and the capacity for information has expanded incredibly, MIDI systems do what those old, mechanical, music boxes do, and they do it the same way--