2009/7/14 Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@at.or.at>

On Jul 13, 2009, at 8:32 AM, Lorenzo wrote:

Hi IOhannes,

you can write externals in a wide number of other languages as well (including (but not limited to) Pd (which is even more natural than C), C++, python, lua, java, haskell and HQ9+)

Could you expand a little on writing externals with python please?

You can't really write externals in python, but you can embed python scripts into Pd using Thomas Grill's pyext. The Java support is a clone of Max/MSP's mxj, which is very similar to pyext. You can write external objects in Pd, C, C++, and lua.

.hc

Talking about interpreted languages you can also try to send and receive arguments through net sockets with [netsend] [netreceive] and you can use [shell] in linux for bash script or almost anything your linux shell can deal.

;;;