Re: [LAD] Prototyping algorithms and ideas

Frank Barknecht:
> > The second problem (besides its lack of interactivity) I have about faust
> > is that is purely functional. I have programmed lots of code in purely
> > functional style, and I like it very much, so thats not the issue. But, I
> > feel that being forced to work in one paradigm gives me less
> > possibilities.
>
> I think, Lua (with Vessel, see my other post) may be a good compromise
> of both worlds.

Vessel/Lua seems very nice, but it doesn't seem to offer sample by
sample processing. And even if it did, it would be terrible slow.
Faust or snd-rt are better options for doing those kind of tasks.

> (It may have not enough parenthesis for your taste. ;)
>

Yeah. :-)
It amazes me, though, that people use s-expression as an argument
against languages. Even people with phd in computer science seems
to think that s-expression is a valid argument against using a
language. If they have spent 30 years of programming, how hard
can it be then to use a couple of weeks getting used to s-expressions?
Doesn't make sense to me.

> Actually as I recently had a quick look at Rick Taube's SAL language
> syntax for working with Common Music, I was amazed at how similar SAL
> looks and feels to straight Lua code. I even wondered, if inventing a
> new domain specifc language like SAL was necessary.

I didn't know SAL was a domain specific language? I thought SAL was
just a synactical frontend for scheme and common lisp?

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Received on Mon Jan 28 20:15:07 2008