[music-dsp] New List member

[Michael Gogins]

For somebody with experience who is starting a major new project,
another language such as Ocaml or C# could be quite interesting and
productive. For somebody getting started, it's a bad choice, and they
should stick with what most working code currently is written in.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-music-dsp at shoko.calarts.edu
[mailto:owner-music-dsp at shoko.calarts.edu] On Behalf Of Cournapeau David
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 7:14 PM
To: music-dsp at shoko.calarts.edu
Subject: Re: [music-dsp] New List member




> Note:
>
> Almost all commercial and share music applications are written in C++.

> There are a few written in C and a few written in Delphi. No 
> commercial music application that I know of is written in VB, C#, or 
> Java.
>
> Almost all academic computer music software, which is what drives the 
> whole business, is written in C or C++. Some is written in LISP or in 
> Java.

I don't think that "everyone is using C++ or C" is a good reason to say
you must use C or C++. These languages have their pro/cons, but there
are a lot of other languages which can be well suited for DSP; but
nobody really try them. For example, a friend of mine try to use some
AD95 in ASIO applications; I personnally don't know a lot about ADA95,
but it has some caracteristics which seem very attractive ( one standart
library for multithreading / good librarire for realt time stuff /
etc... ). And I am sure that a lot of other languages exist, too...




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