Fellow ChucKists, At the start of the next month the city of Utrecht (NL, EU) will host this year's Linux Audio Conference. There I'll do a workshop on ChucK but there will also be a panel discussion on various programmable open systems for audio (SC, PD, CSound, Nyquist, maybe more). This should help clear up many of the things that are unclear (to many) about the differences between these systems. The results of this will be posted online where they will hopefully help prevent flame-wars or at least give more substance to any that do arise. Of course this will involve some quick demonstrations. This leads to the question of what ChucK is especially good for as compared to other systems. Time for this will be brief in this context so I'd like to show some good stuff. I have some ideas of my own but I'd like to consult the list too. What's especially useful/fun to you? What (positively) surprised you compared to other systems? Debate, anecdotes and code examples are all welcome. Do come shake hands if you end up going to the LAC; at 2m with a afro I'm quite hard to miss. Yours, Kas.