[PD] Checking for interest: Scheme interpreter external for PD

[Peter P.]

* Iain Duncan <iainduncanlists at gmail.com> [2020-10-22 05:22]:
> Hello, I'm the author of Scheme for Max, a relatively new open source
> external for Max/MSP that hosts an embedded Scheme Lisp interpreter using
> S7, the Scheme implementation from Bill at CCRMA, also used in Snd and
> Common Music. The external allows one to do things like script and live
> code Max in scheme, including evaluating lisp code on the fly from files or
> message boxes, sending messages to other objects, writing to and from
> common data structures, and interacting with the scheduler. I'm pretty
> excited about how well it's working for my purposes, and will be doing a
> new release this fall as part of my MMus at UVic, as well as turning it
> into a thesis project. I also intend to include full support for the Common
> Music algorithmic composition toolkit (which also is programmed in S7
> scheme or SAL)
> 
> I have been kicking around the idea of trying a PD port, and wanted to
> check whether this sounded interesting to folks in PD land. I like the idea
> of port because it's always good to be have one's work usable on more than
> one platform, and linux support would be good for low latency use cases and
> things like running on small machines. I expect this would be a significant
> amount of work though, so figured I'd see if it sounded interesting to
> folks first.
It would be great to have esp common list available in Pd as part of an
open-source licensed external indeed.