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

[David Plans Casal]

Hi Hans

On 24 Nov 2005, at 19:18, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

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

I participated in that thread, and AFAICT it didn't propose particular 
languages, but rather it is attempting to be able to load objects 
written in -any- language.

I was asking for opinions on what language people would choose to teach 
external object scripting in PD, and whether there was any thoughts on 
a unified scripting language for PD.

> 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.

Good point, however there are occasions where it is less than possible 
to achieve something in PD itself. Also, in my experience, it 
illustrates the point perfectly, when you are trying to explain that PD 
externals do not necessarily -have- to be written in C, to be able to 
just show people a few lines of faily simple Ruby or Python.

It makes people feel that if they need to go that way, it won't be 
impossibly difficult, IYSWIM.

d

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