Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [Csnd] [OT] Cool Edit & Snd comparison survey
From: Bill Schottstaedt (bil_AT_ccrma.Stanford.EDU)
Date: Thu Aug 23 2001 - 14:52:42 EEST
> (Guile? Why not use Scheme?)
Guile is an implementation of Scheme.
> Why use Guile and Ruby for scripting languages? Why not Perl or PHP?
Ruby is (I'm told) very similar to Perl. There are lot of other
choices -- Python for example shouldn't be too hard. There's a
small quibble that I'm using Guile/Ruby as an extension (or embedded)
language, not (primarily) for scripting. I've split the embedded
language support out from Snd as a whole, so it's (say) a few
days work to add another language -- about 100 macros and a half
dozen procedures, mostly to make sure errors are handled with
aplomb.
> Did you forget about QT?
No, but it doesn't seem worth the effort -- adding another GUI
possibility is a lot of tedious work (about 2 months all told
for Gtk). I also looked at Fox.
> Also being able to open any
> file just by specifying bit depth, sample rate, etc. is useful
I'm not sure I understand -- could you send me more info about this?
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