[PD-dev] abstractions

Chris McCormick chris at mccormick.cx
Fri Jul 11 08:33:27 CEST 2008


On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 08:19:09AM +0200, patrice colet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Frank Barknecht a écrit :
> >
> >I think, Pd could benefit a lot by providing a default scripting
> >language to write operations like [range] which are tediuos to do as
> >an abstraction. Altough I'm not a fan of Tcl (and would prefer Lua),
> >Tcl would be a natural choice as it's available anyway. Ideally the
> >scripts would be saved within the patch, e.g. inside message boxes.
> >Oh wait, that's toxy! Hm, ... but toxy has a horrible syntax, which I
> >could never get around. But the general approach of it is a fantastic
> >idea.
> >
> >  
>  Having a default scripting language is certainly the best thing that 
> could happen to puredata, I think.

Agreed. Would love to hear what Miller thinks, or if there is even a
remote possibility a scripting language will ever make it into
Miller-Vanilla.

Chris.

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