I enthusiastically second the notion of simplicity in something like Csound.
I think something similar will evolve in Java with a modest GUI.

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Dobson 
To: Robin Whittle 
Cc: pete moss ; music-dsp@shoko.calarts.edu
; CSOUND 
Date: Thursday, June 17, 1999 5:25 AM
Subject: Re: cmusic Was: Csound and other synthesis systems


>A weblink for cmusic and pcmusic is:
>http://crca-www.ucsd.edu/cmusic/cmusic.html
>
>
>I suppose one significant difference between cmusic and Csound, which
>might explain the releative lack of 'modern' opcodes in the former, is
>that while cmusic has largely remained the property and product of F.R.
>Moore, Csound has reaped the benefit of a  large, skilful, enthusiastic
>and mostly unrestrained net-wide user and development group. This is
>partly thanks to the prodigious work of John Fitch just about keeping
>everyone and everything co-ordinated, but partly also due to the fact
>that it is still essentially standard C, such that anybody can 'have a
>go' (including myself), on just about any platform (including the Atari
>ST) without have to climb a fierce learning curve of object-orientation,
>STL, multi-threading, yacc, lex, et al.



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