Yeah that's true, a product can be successful with truly bad code, but it also makes developers lives miserable each time they need to add a new feature, solve a bug, or simply understand how that entangled mess works.
Management and sales may not appreciate good software design and good code, the next developer that has to work on system will.
I find it interesting that, unless I’m mistaken, this was a completely engineering effort.
That is, they were not trying to follow the notion of a universal computing device that had already been defined by Turing and Church at the time. They were just trying to build something like a huge programmable calculator, but they ended up building a universal computation device anyway.
Singers drift because they use relative pitch, because most musicians dont have perfect pitch.
With relative pitch music sounds the same even if you deviate from the original equal temperament pitch of the key you started singing even changing the key.
For the same reason if there is a fixed instrument playing at the same time, like a piano accompaniment, it's sound would be used as a reference and the singers would not drift
You can with instruments without fixed pitches, like human voice and string instruments, in fact choirs and string quartets do play this way, adjusting each note.
But for instruments with fixed pitches, like guitar or pianos,12 equal temperament is the best compromise to be able to play in all keys.
I understand that is more juicy to get information from graphs, figures and so on, as every domain uses those, but i really hope to eventually see these models to be able to workout music notation, i have tried the best known apps and all of them fail to capture important details such as guitar performace symbols for bends or legato
Management and sales may not appreciate good software design and good code, the next developer that has to work on system will.