On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 16:32 +0900, David Cournapeau wrote: > I am in no way as experienced as most people on this list for audio > programming, but I don't see why C/C++ should be the only way to write > software to handle audio stream, neither do I see why GC would be the > only useful feature. For example, having language constructs to > explicitely handle "time line" sounds like a good idea to me, and it > looks like both Faust and chuck enable that.
there is no universal agreement on how such features should work. if you provide a "language" in which this is possible, you're really providing an application (such as supercollider). a some builtin language idea about what a playlist looks like ? there are many variants on the idea of a playlist, and i don't think you can usefully provide abstract building blocks (which is what a language is for) and support all the variations without compromising at least one of those goals. faust, btw, has no concept of a timeline in the sense that chuck does.
