On Monday, December 7, 2015, Dan Wilcox <danomatika@gmail.com> wrote:
> In 2016 it will be *trivial* to install a scripting language external such as pdlua via the deken plugin which will be included in the next Pd vanilla version release …

I will be interested in seeing how this works.

Since Perl is my favorite, I was just thinking today about something like "mod_perl" for Apache, but for PD-- a persistent Perl program which PD can pass of certain tasks to.

Things like complex data structures (associative arrays, or multi-dimensional arrays) and regular expression parsing I find is so much easier in Perl (but I'm only about 1.5 years into PD, so there are likely many cool tricks I haven't learned yet).  

I'm thinking about implementing my Chord Library gizmo in Perl, but I don't want to pay for the overhead of invoking the Perl compiler with each [shell].

For now, I'm considering just starting my Perl agent as a daemon, and communicating to PD via local sockets...


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> On Dec 7, 2015, at 2:23 PM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:
> From: Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton@gmail.com>
> Date: December 7, 2015 at 2:23:40 PM MST
> To: pd-list@lists.iem.at
> Subject: Re: [PD] get filenames from directory
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> On 07/12/15 17:26, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote:
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> It's not possible with Vanilla objects.
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> In 2016 it would really be nice for Pd *Vanilla* to allow *natively* the use of some scripting language. My personal fav would be Python, but I'd be happy with anything really...
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> After the heated debates about luscious beizer curved chords and gradients in 2013, I this is still miss this feature more than any sexy GUI - :-)
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> Lorenzo.
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