New subject: Prototyping algorithms and ideas

28 Jan 2008

Frank Barknecht:
...
   The second
problem (besides its lack of interactivity) I have about faust
 is that is purely functional. I have programmed lots of code in purely
 functional style, and I like it very much, so thats not the issue. But, I
 feel that being forced to work in one paradigm gives me less
 possibilities.  
 I think, Lua (with Vessel, see my other post) may be a good compromise
 of both worlds. 
Vessel/Lua seems very nice, but it doesn't seem to offer sample by 
sample processing. And even if it did, it would be terrible slow.
Faust or snd-rt are better options for doing those kind of tasks.

...
  (It may have not enough parenthesis for your taste.
;)

Yeah. :-)
It amazes me, though, that people use s-expression as an argument
against languages. Even people with phd in computer science seems
to think that s-expression is a valid argument against using a
language. If they have spent 30 years of programming, how hard
can it be then to use a couple of weeks getting used to s-expressions?
Doesn't make sense to me.

...
  Actually as I recently had a quick look at Rick
Taube's SAL language
 syntax for working with Common Music, I was amazed at how similar SAL
 looks and feels to straight Lua code. I even wondered, if inventing a
 new domain specifc language like SAL was necessary. 
I didn't know SAL was a domain specific language? I thought SAL was
just a synactical frontend for scheme and common lisp?

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