Message written at 13 Feb 1997 22:11:13 +0000
In-reply-to: 
	(message from Bradley James Lindseth on Wed, 12 Feb 1997 22:42:49
	-0600 (CST))

Larry writes...

>                                          I'm assuming that very platform
> that CSound is running on has a C++ compiler - if not, I'd be surprised.
> Now watch someone surprise me :-)

I do love this dry sense of humour.  Let me give you some platforms
which do not run C++.  
Archimedes; Atari; Orion; my SGI Indigo (the main machine used for
Csound maintenence in Bath); my 386.

If you guys want to move to C++, I am out of this area; suppose I
could go back to astronomy

Brad Lindseth made some comments about GNU configure.  I must be thick
today, but I cannot think what it woudl do for me (or anyone else).
Cpould someone explain?

==John ff

> Larry writes...
> 
> >                                          I'm assuming that very platform
> > that CSound is running on has a C++ compiler - if not, I'd be surprised.
> > Now watch someone surprise me :-)
> 
> I do love this dry sense of humour.  Let me give you some platforms
> which do not run C++.  
> Archimedes; Atari; Orion; my SGI Indigo (the main machine used for
> Csound maintenence in Bath); my 386.

Well, there is g++ for Atari... But I agree that it's best to keep to
C for highest portability.

> If you guys want to move to C++, I am out of this area; suppose I
> could go back to astronomy
> 
> Brad Lindseth made some comments about GNU configure.  I must be thick
> today, but I cannot think what it woudl do for me (or anyone else).
> Cpould someone explain?

It would be easier, at least for us with un*x style OS:es, to get
csound compiled. You just run "./configure", it figures out stuff
about your system and generates the Makefile and possibly some .h
file with #defines, and then "make".

-- 
/simon

On Fri, 14 Feb 1997 jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk wrote:

(snip)
> If you guys want to move to C++, I am out of this area; suppose I
> could go back to astronomy

Whoa! Panic, panic, panic! Red alert!

Take a few deep breaths, John, and repeat this mantra:
"I will not abandon them, I will not abandon them, I will not..."

Then, have a lovely single malt, or a double latte, and contemplate the
beauty of tight code producing lovely sound. (Far more interesting than
forcing changes to Wein's Law just to get that T Tauri to float upwards 
through your new H-R main sequence.) :-)

The SGI with GNU has g++....

Michael

On Fri, 14 Feb 1997 jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk
wrote:

> Message written at 13 Feb 1997 22:11:13 +0000
> In-reply-to: 
> 	(message from Bradley James Lindseth on Wed, 12 Feb 1997 22:42:49
> 	-0600 (CST))
> 
> Larry writes...
> 
> >                                          I'm assuming that very platform
> > that CSound is running on has a C++ compiler - if not, I'd be surprised.
> > Now watch someone surprise me :-)
> 
> I do love this dry sense of humour.  Let me give you some platforms
> which do not run C++.  
> Archimedes; Atari; Orion; my SGI Indigo (the main machine used for
> Csound maintenence in Bath); my 386.
> 
> If you guys want to move to C++, I am out of this area; suppose I
> could go back to astronomy
> 
> Brad Lindseth made some comments about GNU configure.  I must be thick
> today, but I cannot think what it woudl do for me (or anyone else).
> Cpould someone explain?
> 
> ==John ff
>