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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 27, 2005, at 4:58 AM, David Plans Casal wrote:

> 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.

The only learning materials that I know of for this is the Externals  
HOWTO, which is all about C externals.

>> 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.

Yes, that would be nice.  Right now the loader stuff is just the  
basics.  It would be great to see a working ruby/etc. loader so that we  
could have some objects written in a scripting language without using a  
language obj like [py] or [tow]/[widget].

.hc

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