[PD] A fifth IMMEDIATE YES from New Blankets [Checking for interest: Scheme interpreter external for PD (Iain Duncan)]

Thu Oct 22 16:42:08 CEST 2020

This sounds like a terrific project!

I don't know if this is of interest, but I wrote a Common Lisp interpreter
object for Max/MSP awhile ago.  The interpreter was implemented in java, so
I'm not sure if it runs with contemporary Max/MSP-s (they dropped explicit
java support, but I've heard from some that it still works).

http://sites.music.columbia.edu/brad/maxlispj/

brad

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 7:32 AM Joe Deken <newblankets at newblankets.org>
wrote:

> Hello Ian,
> (Allowing for time-zones and the dateline) I would eagerly like to be the
>
>         -- FIFTH IMMEDIATE HEARTY "YES" VOTE!? --
>
> From my own viewpoint, the introduction of LISP structures and capability
> into
> Pd would be seminal to new visions and vistas for Pd itself.  (I am warped
> by having conversations
> with Chris McCormick and other aficionados of Clojure, incorrigible years
> myself with emacs-LISP, and even -- when dinosaurs roamed the earth, with
> giants such as John McCarthy -- some small bit of tme of my own in his
> shop and among his disciples at CSAIL.
>
> Lest my mind wander (further), I'll say this more concretely: New Blankets
> is happy to offer resources
> for your efforts if such resources would turn out to be useful. (Not the
> dreaded "bounty" avenue -- I'm thinking more of something like a
> *Pd-Weekend* at my place here in San Diego (or at yours) --  Such PdW
> would be a "round workbench" session as Katja dubs  --  you could present
> your PdScheme work (when you're ready) to a hands-on group who would riff
> on your schemes  and move them forward.  At first attempt, this Pd-Weekend
> could even be virtual and open to all via round-workbench sessions at say:
>    --  https://meet.jit.si/duncan_pd_scheme/ --
>
> A personal plea ... hope you will include in your vision the wonderful
> ideas of Brian Harvey and his SNAP! visual-interfacing achievements. (Some
> antidote is needed with real LISP to counter the bogus infestation of
> Scratch! which seems to have taken pernicious hold world wide ...)
>
>
> On Thu, October 22, 2020 1:34 am, pd-list-request at lists.iem.at wrote:
>
>
>     1. Checking for interest: Scheme interpreter external for PD (Iain
> Duncan)
>
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Message: 1
> > Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 20:14:26 -0700
> > From: Iain Duncan <iainduncanlists at gmail.com>
> > To: pd-list at lists.iem.at
> > Subject: [PD] Checking for interest: Scheme interpreter external for
> >       PD
> > 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
>
>
>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 08:35:01 +0200
> > From: IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>
> ...
> > so now that you ask: i think it would be great.
> >
> > gfadmsr
> > IOhannes
>
>
>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Message: 3
> > Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 09:56:16 +0200
> > From: "Peter P." <peterparker at fastmail.com>
>
> ...
> > It would be great to have esp common list available in Pd as part of an
> open-source licensed external indeed.
> > ------------------------------
>
>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Message: 4
> > Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 08:49:59 +0100
> > From: Andy Farnell <padawan12 at obiwannabe.co.uk>
> ....
> >
> > Would love to see Scheme come to Pd.
> > Thanks for that Iain.
> >
> > Andy
>
>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Message: 5
> > Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 10:27:10 +0200
> > From: ub <ub at xdv.org>
> ....
> > 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
>
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