[PD] PD "native" scripting language (was: Re: Pd-list Digest, Vol 129, Issue 26

[Thomas Grill]

Fwiw, i will do my best to make py/pyext (among my other externals) available through deken.
best, Thomas

> Am 08.12.2015 um 06:46 schrieb William Huston <williamahuston at gmail.com>:
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> On Monday, December 7, 2015, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com <mailto:danomatika at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > In 2016 it will be *trivial* to install a scripting language external such as pdlua via the deken plugin which will be included in the next Pd vanilla version release …
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> I will be interested in seeing how this works.
> 
> Since Perl is my favorite, I was just thinking today about something like "mod_perl" for Apache, but for PD-- a persistent Perl program which PD can pass of certain tasks to.
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> Things like complex data structures (associative arrays, or multi-dimensional arrays) and regular expression parsing I find is so much easier in Perl (but I'm only about 1.5 years into PD, so there are likely many cool tricks I haven't learned yet).
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> I'm thinking about implementing my Chord Library gizmo in Perl, but I don't want to pay for the overhead of invoking the Perl compiler with each [shell].
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> For now, I'm considering just starting my Perl agent as a daemon, and communicating to PD via local sockets...
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> > Dan Wilcox
> > @danomatika
> > danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/>
> > robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/>
> >
> > On Dec 7, 2015, at 2:23 PM, pd-list-request at lists.iem.at <mailto:pd-list-request at lists.iem.at> wrote:
> > From: Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton at gmail.com <mailto:lorenzofsutton at gmail.com>>
> > Date: December 7, 2015 at 2:23:40 PM MST
> > To: pd-list at lists.iem.at <mailto:pd-list at lists.iem.at>
> > Subject: Re: [PD] get filenames from directory
> >
> >
> > On 07/12/15 17:26, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote:
> >
> > It's not possible with Vanilla objects.
> >
> > In 2016 it would really be nice for Pd *Vanilla* to allow *natively* the use of some scripting language. My personal fav would be Python, but I'd be happy with anything really...
> >
> > After the heated debates about luscious beizer curved chords and gradients in 2013, I this is still miss this feature more than any sexy GUI - :-)
> >
> > Lorenzo.
> >
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