1. Make the suggestion to the developers of Audacity, not to us.

2. The attraction would be the ability to write Csound instrument 
definitions in Lua, a much more powerful language than the current Csound 
orchestra language.

Thanks for your response,
Mike
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From: "David Ogborn" 
To: "Developer discussions" 
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 1:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] Future of Csound


> Dear Michael,
>
> Two thoughts on your Csound development suggestions...
>
> 1. I find your suggestion to create a way of embedding Csound in audio
> sequencers and editors especially intriguing.  Audacity in particular
> would become far more useful with some sort of Csound interface than
> with its present reliance on an obscure extension language.  Do you have
> more thoughts about how to proceed on this front?
>
> 2. I have to confess that I don't understand the attraction of embedding
> Lua, or for that matter any other largely unknown language, within
> Csound.  Surely with an API both clearly defined and implemented, it
> would be easy for people to wrap their preferred dialect around the more
> basic Csound constructs - be these score statements, orchestra
> definitions, or both?
>
> Yours truly,
> David
>
> Michael Gogins wrote:
>> A while ago I said I would post my suggestions for the future of Csound,
>> and for managing Csound development. Here they are.
>>
>> Best,
>> Mike
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Michael Gogins wrote:

> 2. The attraction would be the ability to write Csound instrument 
> definitions in Lua, a much more powerful language than the current Csound 
> orchestra language.

The problem is that lua is a general purpose language. Csound
instruments are rather specialised and would probably benefit
from a domain specific language.

Erik
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Dear Michael,

My question was not "why use higher level languages?".  Rather, it is
"what is gained by making higher level languages internal to Csound?".
It has always been possible to define Csound instrument definitions in
whatever language one likes and then make a translation to the orchestra
language.

Sincerely,
David

Michael Gogins wrote:
> ...
> 2. The attraction would be the ability to write Csound instrument 
> definitions in Lua, a much more powerful language than the current Csound 
> orchestra language.


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