On 21 Jul 2009, at 17:59, Kassen wrote:
Lisp does and most things based on it so that includes Scheme which in turn means Fluxus uses anonymous functions. Fluxus might be a nice system if you want Lambda's and creative programing, it even has a (modest) extension for sound but it's mainly OpenGL.
I though that perhaps OCaml might be a good candidate. One reason is that it gives good performance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCaml
I too feel a Lambda operator would be pushing it, I'm not sure we need it either.
There is a package Haskell package Haskore <http://haskell.org/haskore/
for doing MIDI that perhaps can give some ideas of the usability of lambda-calculus in music. Haskell though, because of its overall laziness, needs to use monads to express typing of imperative structures. Could be a bother in music.
Hans