I just realised that my email has landed in the mailing list, surprisingly
as I was notified for not making it.
Sorry for double postings.
K.
On 10 January 2013 00:02, Kassen <signal.automatique_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 07:33:39PM +0000, Konstantinos Vasilakos wrote:
> > Hello there, I would like to ask if there is a list to track down the
> > evolution of the languages for live coding, for example Kuivila used
> > Forth, and there was Lisp as well, is there any tree of family of the
> > languages for live coding?
>
> Mostly I think livecoding languages borrow from regular languages. For
> example ChucK borrows a lot from Java and Supercollider from
> Smalltalk. The big exception is that basically everything has a debt
> to MusicN/CSound.
>
> Within the livecoding world the one case of clear influence I know
> about is that Fluxa started as "near miss", being a "primitive homage
> to SuperCollider". If we look at the actual syntax we could argue that
> it is exposing the "lispy" aspects of SC more than actually borrowing
> from it, but the influence was at least there as a inspiration, I
> think.
>
> We could also theorise that all of them borrow a lot from the
> principles used in analogue modular synths, which in turn borrow from
> the old analogue computer systems. This might be a interesting angle
> for somebody to analyse as I am really not aware of any other influence
> of the analogue style of computing on "normal" text-based languages.
>
> I realise I am not helping here and am instead making the problem
> bigger than the already daunting task of tracing linguistic influences
> but I hope my speculation is still of at least some value.
>
> Yours,
> Kas.
>
>
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