<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">AlgoMantra</b> <<a href="mailto:algomantra@gmail.com">algomantra@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span class="q"><br></span>I would absolutely love that, Kassen - and I would appreciate <br>if Mr. Michal Seta would do the same. In advance, I'm sorry
<br>if I ticked off some circuits in his brain without intending to. <br>Of course, my last missive to him was written with the intent<br>of putting him off. With that silly exception.....</blockquote><div><br><br>Very well. Out of pure curiosity I too Googled for Michal Setta (partially because I recognised the name but couldn't remember from where) and the results I got would indicate that Michal too has a strong interest in programming audio and discussing that so I have high hopes all will be well now.
<br><br>Let's just pretend, if that's possible for all involved, we didn't have this side-track.<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span class="q"><br></span>I think this discussion started from me because ChucK appeared<br>to me (from it's website) as a "language" whose scripts could be <br>modified on-the-fly. After a couple of days of play, it seems a great
<br>type of software tp play with sound at a fundamental level. You can <br>write your own plugins etc, but it does not qualify as a language. <br><br>A language can be ported across platforms more easily - like a <br>population across a border. Software is much heavier, like the freakin
<br>Taj Mahal someone made for hid dead wife. </blockquote><div><br>Well, to me it's a language, for one thing I feel like I can express myself in it which is a good property for a language to have. It's also somewhat portable; you can take your ChucK code from Mac to Linux to Windows and it should work. You can't take it on a mobile-phone, at least not yet that I know off. As a instrument it's more portable then a grand piano but not as portable as a flute. Unlike with some other software I believe the ChucK developers would applaud and try to help anyone who would like to make ChucK more portable. Perhaps I misunderstand what you are aiming at here but I don't see how much more portability then having the source and a GPL license you can expect to have at this point in ChucK's development.
<br><br>As for OTF modifications; I already wrote all I really have to say about that at this stage in my first reply to this discussion. There is room for growth there, you are right, but I'm sure there are big questions about the interface to this and I'm willing to bet there are huge questions about practical implementations. Nobody ever claimed ChucK was mature or that it would effortlessly let you save the world within a week.
<br> </div><br>Yours,<br>Kas.<br></div>