[PD] PD "native" scripting language (was: Re: Pd-list Digest, Vol 129, Issue 26

[William Huston]

On Monday, December 7, 2015, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:
> In 2016 it will be *trivial* to install a scripting language external
such as pdlua via the deken plugin which will be included in the next Pd
vanilla version release …

I will be interested in seeing how this works.

Since Perl is my favorite, I was just thinking today about something like
"mod_perl" for Apache, but for PD-- a persistent Perl program which PD can
pass of certain tasks to.

Things like complex data structures (associative arrays, or
multi-dimensional arrays) and regular expression parsing I find is so much
easier in Perl (but I'm only about 1.5 years into PD, so there are likely
many cool tricks I haven't learned yet).

I'm thinking about implementing my Chord Library gizmo in Perl, but I don't
want to pay for the overhead of invoking the Perl compiler with each
[shell].

For now, I'm considering just starting my Perl agent as a daemon, and
communicating to PD via local sockets...


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> Dan Wilcox
> @danomatika
> danomatika.com
> robotcowboy.com
>
> On Dec 7, 2015, at 2:23 PM, pd-list-request at lists.iem.at wrote:
> From: Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton at gmail.com>
> Date: December 7, 2015 at 2:23:40 PM MST
> To: pd-list at lists.iem.at
> Subject: Re: [PD] get filenames from directory
>
>
> On 07/12/15 17:26, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote:
>
> It's not possible with Vanilla objects.
>
> In 2016 it would really be nice for Pd *Vanilla* to allow *natively* the
use of some scripting language. My personal fav would be Python, but I'd be
happy with anything really...
>
> After the heated debates about luscious beizer curved chords and
gradients in 2013, I this is still miss this feature more than any sexy GUI
- :-)
>
> Lorenzo.
>

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