I don't post here very often, but read this list daily, and have for a few
years now.
I agree with Charlie, John Fitch "..has done more for csound than anyone
since Vercoe first published the package." That's quite an unselfish
contribution to Computer Music. 

John, you really deserve all the "pats on the back" I'm sure you'll be
receiving.


Chris De Chiara
cd@xnet.com





At 09:31 PM 1/19/98 +0000, Charles Baker wrote:
>Jean Piche wrote:
>
>> Friends,
>>
>> I would hereby propose some good cheers and accolades to the fellow who
keeps it
>> all going...
>
>Here, here!!!!
>I have been constantly amazed at the quality and quantity of work that has
gone
>into Csound
>under John's benevolent and inspired guidance. I, too, several years ago
felt a
>great need of
>standardization in the rapidly growing csound world: the version(s) I found
>floating around
>differed slightly from platform to platform, and I knew of several
exciting unit
>generators that had
>been written by individuals across the world. That they all could be
standardized
>into a single
>cross-platform compilable set of sources seemed an daunting task: and into
that gap
>stepped John f. fitch!  In fact, the results are *far* beyond my wildest
hopes: so
>many wonderful u.g.s and even
>top level extensions have come out of the wood-work, and carefully added
to what
>is, without a
>doubt the STANDARD in software synthesis tools. Now, I am awfully fond of
several
>other tools
>(most specifically, CLM by Bil Schoettstadt), but for most computer music
users,
>csound is clearly
>now the "sine qua non" of computer music.
>Now, add to this the fact that John has been doing this as a typically
under-payed
>and
>under-appreciated academic. Hey, I know of several very large corporations in
>silly..ur...
>silicon valley who would pay a king's ransom for a code control/merge job
such as
>John has given us:
>and we , as users, got it for free!!
>
>Now, Jean Piche and Dave Phillips have each contributed a great deal to
the cause,
>as have *many*
>others too numerous to name; but we, as public csound users owe a great
deal to jf
>fitch.
>I hope in our constant drive towards the perfect "bug-free" (lemme laugh
for a
>while on that one) csound, the effortless install, etc., we often stop to
thank the
>man who has done more for csound than anyone since Vercoe first published the
>package.
>John, your computer music karma is as deep and pure as any that walked the
>earth...keep on, m'man.
>
>Ok, 'nuf said, for me.
>
>CharlieB
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