I thought about perl but I have to relearn perl every time I need to use it - its the only languae I use regularly that I need loads of reference books for - as a contrast whilst the C programming I am doing for PD is the first C /C++ I have done for nearly 6 years I can still remember a lot of the functions and libraries.
mark
-----Original Message----- From: Frank Barknecht [mailto:barknech@ph-cip.uni-koeln.de] Sent: 25 February 2002 13:04 To: 'Pd-List' Subject: Re: [PD] Scripting
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 ;)
bye,
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