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

[David Plans Casal]

On 23 Nov 2005, at 17:46, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>
>> I haven't read SICP
>
> Do so now!

I know we have the Kguile object, but bear with me.

I've been reading SICP, and it struck me that it would be an amazing 
thing, to be able to have a common PD-scripting language, similar to 
the scheme they use in SICP (well, similar or better, whether that 
means more or less smalltalky or ruby-esque, whatever).

One of the things I'd like to introduce in teaching PD is to remove the 
fear people have of building their own objects if/when they need to, 
because of their perception of programming, and of languages like C.

I would be a happy bunny if I could, mid-way through a PD course (I'm 
helping to plan such a thing next week), I could introduce PD-scripting 
in a more unified way than saying : 'Ok there's py/pyext, 
gridflow/ruby, kguile, etc etc etc. Pick one, or read Kernigan C book'.

Has anyone got any ideas on this? I know Davide Morelli wants 
(eventually) to create a Lisp interpreter for PD, but I would like to 
hear thoughts on what the best route for a unified scripting framework 
for PD could be...if there can be such a thing at all?

d

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David Plans Casal
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