hey Kas
No need to clarify this. I was just trying to get more parties
involved in the rivalry,
thus trying to stir up some emotions in the CSound people. But they
seem to have
fallen asleep already.
On 11 Jan 2009, at 17:47, Kassen wrote:
> 2009/1/11 thor <th.list_at_gmail.com>:
>>
>> On 11 Jan 2009, at 15:28, Kassen wrote:
>>
>>> That said; the SC-CK rivalry is of course a very real thing that
>>> should be
>>> taken very seriously. After all; it's well known that SC users eat
>>> babies
>>> ;¬).
>>
>> Such dualisms are boring.
>
> Let me clarify. This remark comes from a series of questions on the
> ChucK forum about the differences between SC and CK. Both are
> primarily realtime systems for processing/generating sound, MIDI and
> OSC, etc. I can see why people feel they are comparable. I don't know
> why people don't compare either to CSound that much; I just moderate
> that forum section, I'm not responsible for what questions people
> post.
>
> Anyway, there were already many topics on this in which (mainly) James
> Dewdrop World and myself covered the differences and similarities from
> as many angles as we could think of in response to questions about the
> differences. When there was yet another question about this
> -perceived- dualism I blurted out that the chief advantage of CK was
> that SC users eat babies. Maybe it would've been better to instead
> write "we just had a topic about this, it's still on the first page of
> the index".
>
> Yours,
> Kas.
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