Second of two messages from Sfront developer John Lazzaro that I'm 
forwarding re: SAOL status.

Regards,
Mike
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "lazzaro" 
To: "Michael Gogins" 
Cc: "lazzaro" 
Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 1:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] is SAOL (MPEG-4SA) dead?


> Hi Michael,
>
>
> On Jul 22, 2006, at 3:30 AM, Michael Gogins wrote:
>
>> Are there ANY parties working on a runtime compiler for SAOL that  you 
>> know of? What would it take to create one? (I don't mean  something like 
>> CPS, I mean you write SAOL and then you play it).
>
>
> Not to my knowledge. I think I know
> what you mean here -- you want
> something like the Symbolics Lisp
> machine environment, where you
> could edit Lisp code on the fly and
> run it interactively in an editor that
> was aware of its run-time environment.
>
> I never used a LISP machine myself, but it
> certainly was a productive environment
> for prototyping, I know DSP and graphics
> people who used Lisp machines for
> prototyping and were very happy in the 80s.
>
> I actually have never used Matlab either,
> but don't think Matlab has that model of
> hot code at the function level, you can
> type in code line-by-line at a command
> prompt, but that's different that having
> a SAOL instrument, changing one line
> in the middle of it, and then hitting a
> MIDI controller keyboard and having
> the note trigger the modified instrument
> code in real time.
>
> On a separate note, I haven't read this
> paper yet:
>
> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~larrywu/files/AES_116-8.pdf
>
> but it may be related to the topic ...
>
> ---
> John Lazzaro
> http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro
> lazzaro [at] cs [dot] berkeley [dot] edu
> ---
>
> 


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