On Nov 27, 2005, at 4:58 AM, David Plans Casal wrote:
Hi Hans
On 24 Nov 2005, at 19:18, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
There are some efforts along these lines, check the "tgrill's alternate loader" thread on pd-dev.
I participated in that thread, and AFAICT it didn't propose particular languages, but rather it is attempting to be able to load objects written in -any- language.
I was asking for opinions on what language people would choose to teach external object scripting in PD, and whether there was any thoughts on a unified scripting language for PD.
The only learning materials that I know of for this is the Externals HOWTO, which is all about C externals.
But why not teach your students to make their own objects in Pd? You don't need anything outside in order to write your own objects.
Good point, however there are occasions where it is less than possible to achieve something in PD itself. Also, in my experience, it illustrates the point perfectly, when you are trying to explain that PD externals do not necessarily -have- to be written in C, to be able to just show people a few lines of faily simple Ruby or Python.
It makes people feel that if they need to go that way, it won't be impossibly difficult, IYSWIM.
Yes, that would be nice. Right now the loader stuff is just the basics. It would be great to see a working ruby/etc. loader so that we could have some objects written in a scripting language without using a language obj like [py] or [tow]/[widget].
.hc
d
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