[PD] proof-of-concept [hsext] for writing pd externals in Haskell

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

That sounds about right.  But having a Pd API in the native language  
would be nicer.

.hc

On Jan 6, 2007, at 9:39 PM, Charles Henry wrote:

> Maybe I'm missing the point here, but isn't Haskell a compiled (not
> interpreted) language?  We can add any compiled function, wrapped in a
> C-written external, just so long as we have the symbols for the
> function from the binary.
> *OR* we can write an external in some funky language, so long as we
> can reference the functions from m_pd.h correctly in that language.
> I tried to put a Fortran function into an external, once compiled.
> All I had to do was "grep" for the symbols exactly as they appeared in
> the binary, and get the variables of the function declaration right.
> Is this similar?  Have I missed the point entirely?
> Chuck
>
>
> On 1/6/07, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:
>> On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Thomas Grill wrote:
>> > Am 07.01.2007 um 01:20 schrieb Mathieu Bouchard:
>> >> On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> >>> The loader is the final piece in the puzzle that was  
>> preventing people
>> >>> from writing native objects in other languages.
>> >> Now it doesn't look like you are just being innocently  
>> mistaken, it looks
>> >> like a deliberate lie.
>> > Is everything ok with you?
>>
>> What, you aren't going to say that the absence of the new loader  
>> feature
>> has ever prevented you from coding your Python externals ?
>>
>> Is everything ok with you?
>>
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