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

[ub]

hello iain,

i first met functional programming with fluxus and it turned my head 
inside out. %-)

would be absolutely great to have that in pd!

cheers,

ub


On 22.10.20 05:14, Iain Duncan wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> You can get the idea of how it works from the v1 demo video if you 
> want to see what I'm getting at. 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErirIFCTdjg
>
> Comments, questions, feedback welcome.
>
> Iain
>
>
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