Comments on: A few stray thoughts on SuperCollider http://thetarpit.org/2025/a-few-stray-thoughts-on-supercollider "Now I feel like I know less about what that blog is about than I did before." Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:33:56 +0000 http://thetarpit.org hourly 1 By: spyked http://thetarpit.org/2025/a-few-stray-thoughts-on-supercollider#comment-7024 spyked Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:25:17 +0000 http://thetarpit.org/?p=578#comment-7024 A side note for the programming language folks: SCLang, as can be oberved from the examples in this article, is largely inspired from Smalltalk. Thus it features a particular type of object-oriented system, where function invocation is a form of message passing. As a consequence, the server, despite being a remote process, is just another object in the SCLang namespace. So, for example, configuring the sampling rate is just a matter of setting the right parameter, while playback is started by sending a play message, as illustrated above. This level of programmability is way beyond anything one can achieve in a traditional DAW. A side note for the programming language folks: SCLang, as can be oberved from the examples in this article, is largely inspired from Smalltalk. Thus it features a particular type of object-oriented system, where function invocation is a form of message passing. As a consequence, the server, despite being a remote process, is just another object in the SCLang namespace. So, for example, configuring the sampling rate is just a matter of setting the right parameter, while playback is started by sending a play message, as illustrated above.

This level of programmability is way beyond anything one can achieve in a traditional DAW.

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