10 Feb
2004
10 Feb
'04
10:45 a.m.
Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen wrote:
Note that I'm not recommending them for music purposes (that's what the
sound & music languages are for anyway) and that I purposely omitted the
scripting languages.
And yes, I would agree re: Lisp. In fact, on an extreme day I might say
"Forget all the rest and just go learn Lisp"... ;)
Best,
dp
I'm currently accessing the supercollider synth
fromwithin pure data
using the python PD external. I'd say its a supergreat combination
where you get easy/clean programming with python, functional programming
with the guile pd-external, sound processing power with SC3, and
GUI with pd. Check out the supercollider module in the pure-data
CVS.
I'll check it out.
Great, now I can start learning Python. Great. ;-)
Finally I
would urge the beginner to make a real study of some other
language, i.e., C/C++, Java, whatever, along with learning a sound &
music programming language. That assumes the time for such study, but
consider it time well spent, you'll learn a lot by the inevitable
comparisons.
Hmm, I would rather reccomend common lisp/scheme or python than
c/c++ and java for music purposes. C are fine for making hardware drivers,
c++ can be fine if you need OO to C, and java is horrible in all possible
ways. My opinion. :)