As near as I can tell, the project is dead as far as computer music is 
concerned. It is still alive as far as MPEG itself and John Lazzaro is 
concerned. It looks to me like he is continuing to refine Sfront as a 
reference implementation for the RTP MIDI protocol that he is working on.

The project would come back to life as far as computer music is concerned, 
maybe, if someone would come up with a runtime engine for SAOL that is 
better than the runtime engine for Csound.

Anyone who knows more about this than I do -- please correct me if I am 
wrong!

Regards,
Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "matt ingalls" 
To: "Developer discussions" 
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 9:22 PM
Subject: [Cs-dev] is SAOL (MPEG-4SA) dead?


> it looks like the MIT page hasn't been updated since 2000..
> sfront seems to have had minor changes the last few years, but..
>
> ???
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Michael Gogins wrote:
> As near as I can tell, the project is dead as far as computer music is 
> concerned. It is still alive as far as MPEG itself and John Lazzaro is 
> concerned. It looks to me like he is continuing to refine Sfront as a 
> reference implementation for the RTP MIDI protocol that he is working on.
> 
> The project would come back to life as far as computer music is concerned, 
> maybe, if someone would come up with a runtime engine for SAOL that is 
> better than the runtime engine for Csound.

Was there not some talk a few years ago about Csound5 providing a new
engine for SAOL language? Or has the csound language caught up to SAOL?
Or is this "new parser" talk? I remember liking some of the linguistic
features of SAOL when I checked it out, but thinking I could never
abandon csound for so few opcodes ...

Iain

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