At 01:21 PM 5/26/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Bill Gardner, one of my officemates at the Media Lab, has been
>engaging me in a series of discussions about turning SAOL into
>a more explicitly "object-oriented" language. I'm interested
>in others' thoughts on (a) whether this is a useful direction
>to go in from a SAOL composer's perspective, and (b) what the
>implications are, if any, for implementations.
Eric,
I was just having an email discussion with a programmer friend of mine about
how painful it can be to program in a (macro) assembly lang like Csound...I
for one am finding the concept of OOP much easier and effecient in many ways
than the "signal flow" model that MusicV langs offer...SAOL is C-like in
it's syntax (which is nice) but maybe it should become more like Java? I am
finding that SuperCollider interests me more lately purely because of it's
OOP model...I vote for making SAOL an OOP lang...
KIM
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