Talk:Csound

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The syntax is based on the C programming language, hence the name.

This is just wrong. Also, shouldn't this page be called Csound? Is there an easy way to rename? Skagedal 09:34, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Renamed to Csound. FYI, use the Wikipedia move function attached to any entry to rename it. -- Ds13 22:38, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

The example code on the page looks remarkably unlike C to me... almost more like assembly. If this is "written in the C programming language", what must have its predecessors looked like? Cammy 23:03, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

The "C" designation refers to the fact that the language interpreter is itself written in C. When Csound was first created in the 1980s, this was a big deal, because earlier Music-N languages (such as Music-360) were written in processor-specific assembly languages. The use of C made Csound portable to multiple architectures.

[edit] where to place this link?

I added this link to a Csound user forum here: http://www.nabble.com/Csound-f480.html it's a searchable archive that currently contains all the Csound mailing lists. but my addition was somehow reverted. Can anybody suggest where to put this link? It's a useful tool for csound users. It's a better archive than the archive that you found on csound site. The difference is that with nabble I can search all the csound lists, but with the archive on csound site, I have to search each list individually, that means 4 times the search. thanks!

--Audiolo 22:10, 24 August 2005 (UTC)