6 Feb
2004
6 Feb
'04
3:43 p.m.
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 11:26:34AM -0600, Peter Groves wrote:
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 linux-audio-user-request(a)music.columbia.edu wrote:
| From: Dave Phillips <dlphilp(a)bright.net>
| Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Should I Bother Learning Csound?
| Considering the low cost of each of these systems, why not try them
| all ? You might also want to consider Common Lisp Music, a Lisp-based
| system. Btw, both CLM and SC3 are very much object-oriented languages,
| while Csound and RTcmix are modeled after more procedural languages.
Well, that would be ideal, but I'm trying to get the most power for the
smallest amount of time spent learning it. Given all the comments, I
think I will give Csound a shot. I use java at work, so I'm used to
using a crappy language just because it has good libraries
ok. but realize going in that csound is really severely crippled as a
high-level programming language. You can't make functions, subroutines, or
anything of that ilk. There are no for or while loops. The *only*
kind of conditional branching requires a "goto" target.
There are macros, but they are horrible. In other words,
you can't really do structured programming at all.
You end up doing tons of copy/paste and spaghetti.
Except for all that, csound is great ;-)
When writing
similar code over and over, I have resorted to writing my own
template/preprocessor before. If I really end up liking what csound can
do, but hate the language constructs, I might go down that road. I think
I might have seen something like that done already Python, but I can't
recall where right now.
pythonsound.sf.net.
Be aware that its author abandoned it in favor of CLM,
and I'm the only other developer and I haven't touched it in at
least a year.
Maurizio, the pythonsound/omde/pymask creator, told me (paraphrasing)
"I spent months of my spare time trying to invent a python library that
would enable me to compose. I learned enough Lisp to compose
in two days."
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