mark hat gesagt: // mark wrote:
I gave some serious thought to the scripting thing last night. I am thinking of building a "python" external that would allow simple scripts - you would make make an object:
py scriptname
which would take a python class that is similar in structure to the external "class" structure used by externals currently - obviously a bit more simple. No DSP of course (can't imagine it would be vaguely fast enough). Python is a good fit with PD I belive - it does good list type manipulation (in fact it will be easy to write a set of list manipulation externals which I have been wanting for a while now) and its got some quite nifty features. Oh and I want to learn it which strikes me as a good a reason as any ;-)
I like the idea very much. Larry Troxler started something similar with his PD-Scheme external, maybe you can get some inspiration here (http://www.westnet.com/~lt/pd/). Python is not that far away from Scheme in some regards. I would probably prefer Python as a scripting language, as I know this a lot better than I know Scheme. I know Perl even better, but I am always happy *not* having to write in Perl anymore ;)
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