Thank you for your suggestions,

I'd prefer NOT to use Python. I really like the language but it is in
my experience, a major barrier to getting people into the Csound
language. Csound itself is daunting enough without bringing in the
idea of using Python. It is a nice extra and it should remain exactly
that, an *extra*.

The dependency on Python for Windows based systems needs to be
removed. Users should not be expected to install Python just to use
the program; it's fine the build system is in Python but Python is
more of a language for people really into programming and as such it
shouldn't be necessary to get sound out of Csound.

My goal in creating this thread is to make Csound more accessible to a
wider range of people - specifically individuals in
speech-language-hearing science who have not and will not ever be
"programmers".

Csound can be a powerful pedagogical tool but it's a shame that I will
not be able to explain concepts using Csound's elegant encapsulation
of many synthesis and acoustic phenomenon because we are unable to
install Python in the labs.



David Akbari