Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] SuperClonider
From: rm (async_AT_cc.gatech.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 28 2002 - 09:17:02 EEST
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 02:25:41PM -0700, John Lazzaro wrote:
>
> Without a standards document that precisely defines the semantics of
> a language, there's no way to know what the language is. Even _you_
> don't really know without the document -- every change to the existing
> codebase is a decision made on the fly, as to what is normative and
> what is not, without a documentation trail to back it up.
first declare yourself a working group (let's say XJ5.34) of IMG
(international made-up group). then declare version x.xx of the
compiler/interpreter to define the canonical syntax and behaviour of
the language spec version x.xx .
the docs on supercollider seem reasonably complete, and i'm sure it
wouldn't be hard to put up a yacc grammar. but the gain is
questionable at best.
i don't think a language is going to live or die based on whether or
not it is standardized, (consider c, c++, python, perl, awk, ada,
algol68: varying states of standardization and varying states of
death).
rob
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