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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 24, 2005, at 5:09 AM, David Plans Casal wrote:

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

There are some efforts along these lines, check the "tgrill's alternate  
loader" thread on pd-dev.

But why not teach your students to make their own objects in Pd?  You  
don't need anything outside in order to write your own objects.

.hc

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