Hi Charles, > The book collects his Darmstadt lectures from 1954-56
Yes, that era fits better with the ideas conveyed. thanks for the clear up. > Isn't the point not to take sides, but recognize the tension? Definitely. You are absolutely right. That was where I was headed with my remarks. > Could very well be that the callback is the result of a cultural > outlook, and not the result of engineering design… Embellishing my reply to Adam, it's not so much engineering design as engineering circumstance. We find ourselves writing code on general purpose desktop computers with multi-tasking operating systems and a quite unpredictable kernel schedule. Starting from a certain necessity the rest of the design seems to follow quite naturally. cheers, Andy -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp