Re: [LAU] Supercollider error

From: Fons Adriaensen <fons@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Jul 15 2011 - 22:50:41 EEST

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 03:25:37PM -0300, Bernardo Barros wrote:
> 2011/7/15 Renato <rennabh@email-addr-hidden>:
> > I second that... I'm by no means an expert of programming languages,
> > but sclang/sc really seems inconsistent and sort of messed up. I mean,
> > it is *good* because you can easily do many non trivial things, but it
> > could be much better organized IMHO
> >
>
>
> Some criticisms are related to the possibilities of using different
> syntax for the same job, unlike Python where one job has one syntax.
> etc.. This a valid criticism and was discussed a while ago in the
> sc-dev. But you can't really changes this kind of stuff without
> breaking old code, what you can do is to define a recommended style to
> people to follow.
>
> If you really hate sclang you can still use SuperCollider (scsynth)
> from Haskell (hsc3) or Scala (scalacollider), two modern and very
> successful languages.

Neither of them I find attractive. I don't like Java and functional
languages don't like me. PyCollider would be nice...

Ciao,

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