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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'Arial'; font-size:10pt;">Thank you very much for your response. So it was mostly a technical reason to switch from CL to Scheme, not because of the language. It's also amazing to learn, that you even ported the system to Python.</span></p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'Arial'; font-size:10pt;">Since you therefore have experience in algorithmic composition in at least four languages - Common Lisp, Scheme, SAL and Python - the question arises which of these languages you consider most useful to represent compositions and musical information.</span></p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'Arial'; font-size:10pt;">I'm also curious whether you think object-orientation brings added value to algorithmic composition. In your papers and book you emphasized CLOS; in the Scheme version of Common Music object-orientation doesn't seem to be of importance, and - as far as I understood - SAL doesn't support object-orientation at all. Am I right to conclude from this that algorithmic composition has little benefit from object-orientation?</span></p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'Arial'; font-size:10pt;">Thanks</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'Arial'; font-size:10pt;">R.K.</span></p></td></tr></table></body></html>