[PD] Checking for interest: Scheme interpreter external for PD

[Iain Duncan]

Thanks everyone, this is very encouraging. I will aspire to make a port to
PD next semester, and will announce here when there is a beta version
available. :-)

iain

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 8:10 AM Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>
wrote:

> + 100000000
>
> Em qui., 22 de out. de 2020 às 05:36, ub <ub at xdv.org> escreveu:
>
>> hello iain,
>>
>> i first met functional programming with fluxus and it turned my head
>> inside out. %-)
>>
>> would be absolutely great to have that in pd!
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> ub
>>
>>
>> On 22.10.20 05:14, Iain Duncan wrote:
>>
>> Hello, I'm the author of Scheme for Max, a relatively new open source
>> external for Max/MSP that hosts an embedded Scheme Lisp interpreter using
>> S7, the Scheme implementation from Bill at CCRMA, also used in Snd and
>> Common Music. The external allows one to do things like script and live
>> code Max in scheme, including evaluating lisp code on the fly from files or
>> message boxes, sending messages to other objects, writing to and from
>> common data structures, and interacting with the scheduler. I'm pretty
>> excited about how well it's working for my purposes, and will be doing a
>> new release this fall as part of my MMus at UVic, as well as turning it
>> into a thesis project. I also intend to include full support for the Common
>> Music algorithmic composition toolkit (which also is programmed in S7
>> scheme or SAL)
>>
>> I have been kicking around the idea of trying a PD port, and wanted to
>> check whether this sounded interesting to folks in PD land. I like the idea
>> of port because it's always good to be have one's work usable on more than
>> one platform, and linux support would be good for low latency use cases and
>> things like running on small machines. I expect this would be a significant
>> amount of work though, so figured I'd see if it sounded interesting to
>> folks first.
>>
>> You can get the idea of how it works from the v1 demo video if you want
>> to see what I'm getting at. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErirIFCTdjg
>>
>> Comments, questions, feedback welcome.
>>
>> Iain
>>
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