I think if Barry Vercoe has something to say about preferring C++, he should email the development list about it. With all due respect both to yourself and to Professor Vercoe.

Regards,
Mike



-----Original Message-----
>From: "Dr. Richard Boulanger" 
>Sent: Jan 10, 2007 4:40 PM
>To: Victor.Lazzarini@nuim.ie, Developer discussions 
>Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] Status Update Request
>
>I think it would alienate Barry Vercoe for one... and, because of  
>OLPC - he is more
>into Csound5 now than ever before.
>
>-dB
>
>On Jan 10, 2007, at 2:33 PM, Victor Lazzarini wrote:
>
>> I would be against a move from C to C++, not because I don't
>> like the language, but because I think it might alienate
>> some of the developers as not everyone is into C++.
>>
>> I am worried that such move would: a) introduce bugs into
>> the code; b) split the group. If a) happens, with b) we
>> have less chance of fixing things. We don't have anyone
>> full-time working on the API code now to track down problems
>> and I would prefer to maintain the actual structure, which
>> is mostly sound (if you excuse me the pun).
>>
>> Victor
>>
>>>
>>> -- Change the CSOUND structure to a proper C++ class. This
>>> would make it much easier both to extend, and to maintain,
>>> Csound and the Csound API. It would not make Csound
>>> slower.
>>
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