edit: weirdly the parent comment of my comment has disappeared and now my comment has been moved to a top level comment and appears to be apropos of nothing. Oh well.
I'm pretty sure this predated the programming language. I can't find a source on when Scala (the microtuning one) first appeared but it existed when I first got into this stuff around 2004, and I didn't have the impression it was new at the time.
Ok, the earliest instance of that URL I can see on Archive.org is 2007, so it's pretty old and close to age of Scala programming language or possibly older.
Scala was familiar enough by 2003 that I referred to it as a known utility (rather than a new thing) in a post to the mailing list for a different project in June that year. It's obviously a niche application, but I suppose within that niche it's probably still more familiar than the language, if not as familiar as the opera house.
From my perspective as a Linux user and developer, one problem with it was the non-commercial-only licence which, while obviously reasonable, prevented it from being packaged in many Linux distributions. If it wasn't for that, your "apt-get install scala" might well be installing this application rather than the programming language.
Though I did grow up with Scala the company on my tv as the local cable tv company was powered by it. Now I work most of the time using Scala the programming language.
The list of export formats is really impressive. It's interesting to note that Hauptwerk (a pipe organ software emulator) is among the supported targets; some early organs used historical temperaments which sound different compared to equal temperament and some of those had split keys [1][2].
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Edit - looks like this is as old as Scala the programming language.
I'm pretty sure this predated the programming language. I can't find a source on when Scala (the microtuning one) first appeared but it existed when I first got into this stuff around 2004, and I didn't have the impression it was new at the time.
Scala the programming language had its first public release on 2004-01-20[1].
[0] http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/examples.html
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language)
From my perspective as a Linux user and developer, one problem with it was the non-commercial-only licence which, while obviously reasonable, prevented it from being packaged in many Linux distributions. If it wasn't for that, your "apt-get install scala" might well be installing this application rather than the programming language.
Or my favourite restaurant in Ibiza. [2][3]
Though I did grow up with Scala the company on my tv as the local cable tv company was powered by it. Now I work most of the time using Scala the programming language.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Scala
[2] http://la-scala.com
[3] https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g664638-d100...
https://sevish.com/scaleworkshop/
It has the most useful bits of functionality of Scala, with a simpler UI, and as a web rather than desktop application.
[1] This is an example of meantone organ with split sharps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GhAuZH6phs
[2] This is an explanation of Meantone and split keys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBxC-Egr73w