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 <gelfmuse@gmail.com> 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
On 8/16/07, chris beck <render787@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 <joerg@piringer.net> wrote:
> > Kassen schrieb:
> > > I agree a include statement/dependency finding should be at the top.
> > > This will not only open the way for easier management of larger projects
> > > 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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