[PD-dev] Passion, fun, elegance, SICP

[Thomas Grill]

Am 27.11.2005 um 21:41 schrieb Mathieu Bouchard:

> On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Thomas Grill wrote:
>
>> what i'm (slowly) working on is an interface between PD and the CLR
>> (common language runtime), also known as .NET or mono. This is a kind 
>> of
>> bytecode assembly (related to Java bytecode) which can be targetted 
>> from
>> different programming languages, like C#, C++/CLI, Java#, IronPython,
>> VisualBasic, DotLisp. With the associated JIT-Compiler these portable
>> executables can be quite fast, much faster than current Python or 
>> ruby,
>> and they can cooperate easily, independently of the source language
>> used. It's forseeable that not all scripting languages will support 
>> the
>> CLI (common language infrastructure), but a growing number does.
>
> Also, Pascal Gauthier from Montréal has made one for Java/JVM and I'm
> trying to get him to release his stuff. In particular I want him to
> present his JNI external at PureData Montréal #15, on December 10.

That would be very interesting. Talking about unifying scripting in PD, 
it's not too hard to imagine that at least JVM and CLR could have 
exactly the same interface functionality and namings.
Is there a web link to Pascal's work?

best greetings,
Thomas