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| 29 | <h1>Testimonials</h1> |
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| 31 | <dl> |
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| 32 | <dt>David Kirkman (Astronomer at University of California, San Diego) |
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| 33 | - June 7, 2010</dt> |
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| 34 | <dd> |
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| 35 | "I've been using ABCL to help position the Keck telescope on targets |
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| 36 | that are too faint to see with the slit guider. I used code I |
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| 37 | created in 1994 - in Lisp - for the exact calculations and combined it |
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| 38 | with Java libraries for getting images in and displaying things. The |
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| 39 | Lisp code ran unmodified. And what's more: I can run it all on my |
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| 40 | Windows laptop!<br /> <br /> |
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| 41 | The original project went so well that I stared to do new work in Lisp again." |
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| 44 | <dt>Brad Garton (Columbia University Computer Music Center) |
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| 46 | <dd> |
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| 47 | "I used ABCL (older, v. 0.0.10) as the interpreter |
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| 48 | underlying an object for a music/media graphical programming |
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| 49 | environment called <a href="http://www.cycling74.com/products/max5">Max/MSP</a>. |
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| 50 | ABCL allowed me to embed an entire LISP interpreter inside the |
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| 51 | Max/MSP package, and it has worked extremely well. Max/MSP |
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| 52 | is designed primarily for real-time/interactive applications, |
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| 53 | used a lot by computer music academics, DJs/VJs, bizarro jazz |
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| 54 | performers, audio plugin developers, etc. With the embedded |
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| 55 | abcl object, I am able to schedule LISP functions and work |
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| 56 | interactively with complex processes -- <b>the abcl interpreter |
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| 57 | has been rock-solid!</b> <br /> |
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| 58 | <br /> |
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| 59 | The source for the object is here (scroll down to the bottom of |
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| 60 | the page):<br /> |
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| 61 | <br /> |
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| 62 | <a style="align:center" href="http://music.columbia.edu/~brad/maxlispj/">http://music.columbia.edu/~brad/maxlispj/</a><br /> |
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| 63 | <br /> |
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| 64 | And I also used it extensively in a large application built with |
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| 65 | Max/MSP... it's an interactive 'book' where the generative music |
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| 66 | follows what a reader is reading and creates an appropriate sound |
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| 67 | setting for the text:<br /> |
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| 68 | <br /> |
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| 69 | <a style="align:center" href="http://music.columbia.edu/~brad/BookOfDreams/">http://music.columbia.edu/~brad/BookOfDreams/</a><br /> |
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| 70 | <br /> |
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| 71 | The music performance model underlying the shawm-like melodies |
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| 72 | is all coded using abcl.<br /> |
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| 73 | <br /> |
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| 74 | So to all of you who have contributed (and still contribute!) to |
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| 75 | the development of this terrific package, a big THANK YOU!!!" |
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| 76 | </dt> |
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| 78 | <dt>Alessio Stalla |
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| 79 | </dt> |
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| 80 | <dd>I'm currently integrating ABCL in a small, unreleased open source |
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| 81 | project. It's a sort of graphical object browser for Java (but its GUI |
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| 82 | sucks badly for now...). It can be run locally or as a client-server |
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| 83 | application. I'm adding scripting support so you can access some |
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| 84 | functionality from Lisp (or in principle any other Java Scripting API |
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| 85 | compatible script engine, though I'm focusing on ABCL). |
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| 86 | </dd> |
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| 88 | <dt>Hunter Monroe |
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| 89 | </dt> |
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| 90 | <dd>"Maxima algebraic computation software compiles with ABCL. The test suite |
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| 91 | runs fairly quickly on Windows XP and, after work by Robert Dodier, 86 |
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| 92 | percent of the test suite is passed successfully, although some individual |
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| 93 | tests crash the suite. If you want to compile Maxima with ABCL lisp, check |
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| 94 | out the Maxima source code and following the instructions in INSTALL.lisp." |
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| 95 | </dd> |
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| 97 | <dt>Ted Kosan |
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| 98 | </dt> |
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| 99 | <dd>I am in the process of integrating ABCL with <a href="http://mathrider.org">MathRider</a> in preparation for when Maxima is able to run on it. |
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| 100 | </dd> |
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