Re: [chuck-users] priorities for next release

I would disagree with that reasoning. Sure it's produced by academics, but this is the USERS list. And it is fundamentally a practical tool, not an academic exercise as you suggest. The fact that we are discussing it on this list means that usability is a serious concern. Although I might not disagree with the conclusion, the language itself certainly can and should be improved. I would say that standardizing the Ugen / Instrument interfaces should be high on this list. -- Chris On 8/16/07, mike clemow wrote:

I totally agree that there should be some more effort put toward allowing users to create more Ugens, however, I think that because Chuck is also an academic exercise for the Princeton folks, adding features to the language itself is a higher priority than adding more instruments, IMHO.

Mike

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To me, it seems like the most important thing is to add more preset instruments and make it easier to create your own instruments. At the moment, we have a pretty broad set of instruments, but it could certainly be expanded. Also, the interfaces to them are not entirely standardized. The concept of an instrument could be abstracted more within chuck, which would be an asset to the programmer.

Just my 2 cents, Chris

On 8/15/07, joerg piringer wrote:

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I agree a include statement/dependency finding should be at the top. This will not only open the way for easier management of larger

On 8/16/07, chris beck wrote: projects

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but it will also allow for easy sharing of tools and extentions which would be good for community building. Practically speaking it would lower the treshold for contributing to ChucK from knowing C++ to knowing ChucK which I think is a big deal.

and ah yes! i forgot a very important issue: EXTERNALS! i have a couple of ideas that could be easily implemented with external dlls or dynamic libraries. like for example text to speech (flite) or an openGL display.

best joerg

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