[CM] Cmdist Digest, Vol 94, Issue 8

[Ben McAllister]

Thanks Lynn ;) good to 'see' you. And thanks for the Scheme tip!


On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 7:44 AM, Lynn Artas <artaslynn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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