Severe case of Insomnia here - good morning Europe. Wait no, actually it's almost time for lunch for you guys. I don't know what brought this on, but I suspect the peperoni and anchovy pizza I had last night. grrrr. Now it will be getting light out soon. I guess my Sunday isn't going to be very productive, huh?
On Sunday 11 January 2004 05:02, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Could anyone give some quick pointers on how to install Common Music for guile (or at all) on Linux? Besides reading the SICP book I'm an Lisp idiot and I even use Vim, not Emacs, so any pointers would be welcome...
ciao
I still haven't installed the scheme version of Common Music, but have played extensively with the Common Lisp version over the years, and have come to regard the Common Lisp language quite highly, especially for an interactive situation like music. In effect, Lisp lets you define your own language for the situation at hand. In that respect I suppose it's more similar to languages like Forth, than it is to C/C++. I think it has greatly suffered from misconceptions, like it's interpreted and therefore slow (not true - lisp is incremementally compiled these days) and the like. The other big problem is that CL doesn't have a lot of standard libraries to do GUI stuff and the like. It's a shame, because I think the language itself is fantastic, and apparently I'm not the only one, because a lot of bright minds seem to be drawn to Lisp.
Unfortunately, Scheme isn't quite the be-all-and-end-all of languages that Common Lisp is, but I have to have faith :-) But I think I need to try to sleep for a while before installing it.
Did you have specific questions about CM? I would think that there would be a lot of help on CCRMA - Rick Taube seems usually to be pretty good about installation instructions.
Do take the time to play with Lisp. As a long time C/C++ programmer, it really opened my mind a bit. Again, unfortunately, with PD you will have to run CM in scheme, which is more of a minimalist, academic language, rather than in Common Lisp, which to me is much more practical and powerfull.
Well, I'm gonna try to sleep before the sun comes up. I'll probably have more to say later today once I install guile CM and load it into PD.
Larry