[CM] Cmdist Digest, Vol 94, Issue 8

[Lynn Artas]

Hey there, Ben—I'm an old schoolmate of yours from that time and place.  I
use a pseudonym on discussion lists so as not to embarrass myself or our
beloved teacher with my silly questions.  ; )

I'm in the same situation—starting up Grace/CM after well over a decade of
doing little to nothing with it. Bill Schottstaedt just gave me the names
of the following handy resources a few weeks ago on the list. Here are some
links:

"The Scheme Programming Language" by Dybvig

http://www.scheme.com/tspl2d/


Peter Seibel's Practical Common Lisp

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/


I think you're right about "Scheme is a 'dialect' of Lisp...and S7 is an
extension of Scheme." but I'll let an expert confirm or correct.

Yes, there's an (nth x y) function in Scheme. I banged my head on this one
too—It's backwards from what we remember:

(nth listname index) instead of (nth index listname)


Cheers to middle aged dogs re-learning old tricks!




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> Hi All,
>
> I studied Computer Music with Richard Karpen in the 90s at University
> of Washington, where CM 1.4 and Csound were the tools of the day. I've
> been having a blast these past few weeks re-writing my CM 1.x pieces
> in Grace / CM3! Really great job on Grace - thanks so much for the
> documentation and examples in Grace. I found the tutorials and
> examples very easy to follow. I'd like to find a way to contribute
> more examples as I work through resuscitating my old work :)
>
> I build software for a living, but haven't used Lisp for anything
> except music. It would be helpful for me to have a better view of
> where Common Music sits alongside Lisp, Scheme, and S7. If I
> understand correctly, Scheme is a 'dialect' of Lisp with a rich
> community of users, and S7 is an extension of Scheme. Have I got that
> right?
>
> So, specifically to Grace, does this mean any Scheme code should run
> from a Grace editor window?
>
> As I refresh my memory on how to do relatively simple things in
> Scheme, I'm not sure if they're intended to be supported in Scheme. To
> take one random example, I assume I can consult the latest Scheme docs
> online to figure out whether or not there's an (nth x y) function in
> Scheme like there is in CL - there isn't, but it's straightforward to
> code up:
>
> (define (nth n l)
>   (if (or (> n (length l)) (< n 0))
>     (error "Index out of bounds.")
>     (if (eq? n 0)
>       (car l)
>       (nth (- n 1) (cdr l)))))
>
>
> Lastly, besides maybe Stack Overflow, it doesn't look like there is a
> place online where users can convene and share experiences and code
> except this mailing list. True?
>
> Thanks for reading and once again, great work!
>  --
> Ben McAllister | listenfaster.com |  @listenfaster
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