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

[David Plans Casal]

On 25 Nov 2005, at 11:19, Thomas Grill wrote:

>> 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?
>>
> what i'm (slowly) working on is an interface between PD and the CLR 
> (common language runtime), also known as .NET or mono. This is a kind 
> of bytecode assembly (related to Java bytecode) which can be targetted 
> from different programming languages, like C#, C++/CLI, Java#, 
> IronPython, VisualBasic, DotLisp. With the associated JIT-Compiler 
> these portable executables can be quite fast, much faster than current 
> Python or ruby, and they can cooperate easily, independently of the 
> source language used.

That's wonderful. Mono is a very interesting project.

Could you clarify a bit what stage you're at with your CLR project?

Cheers,

David


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