Editing Csound (section)

{{Short description|Programming language}}
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{{Infobox software
| name = Csound
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| author = [[Barry Vercoe]]
| developer = [[John Fitch (computer scientist)|John Fitch]], Steven Yi, [[Victor Lazzarini]]
| released = {{Start date and age|1986}}<ref>[http://csound.com/csound30/papersessions.pdf Dr. Richard Boulanger - Three Decades with Csound: The Roots, Birth, and Early Years]</ref>
| latest release version = 6.18.1
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2022|11|24}}<ref name="github">{{cite web |url=https://github.com/csound/csound/releases |title=Releases: csound/csound |website=GitHub.com |access-date=2023-02-11}}</ref>
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| operating system = [[Cross-platform software|Cross-platform]]: [[Linux]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[macOS]]
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| programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]]
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| license = [[GNU Lesser General Public License|LGPL 2.1]] or later
| website = {{URL|csound.com}}
}}
'''Csound''' is a [[Domain-specific language|domain-specific]] computer [[programming language]] for audio programming. It is named Csound because it is written in the language [[C (programming language)|C]], in contrast to some of its predecessors. It is [[free and open-source software]], released under the [[GNU Lesser General Public License]] (LGPL) 2.1 or later.