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Combining Processing with Racket

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Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2015)

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Processing is a programming language created to teach programming in a visual context. Despite its success, Processing remains a niche language with limited applicability in the architectural field, as no Computer-Aided Design (CAD) application supports Processing. This work presents an implementation of Processing for the Racket platform, that transforms Processing code into semantically equivalent Racket code. Our Processing implementation is developed as a Racket module language for interoperability with Racket and other module languages of Racket’s language ecosystem. Our implementation allows us to take advantage of Rosetta, a Racket library that provides access to several CAD back-ends (e.g. AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, SketchUp). As a result, architects and designers can take advantage of our implementation to use Processing with their favourite CAD application.

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Acknowledgements

This work was partially supported by national funds through Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) with reference UID/CEC/50021/ 2013, and by the Rosetta project under contract PTDC/ATP-AQI/5224/2012.

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    Hugo Correia & António Menezes Leitão

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Correia, H., Leitão, A.M. (2015). Combining Processing with Racket. In: Sierra-Rodríguez, JL., Leal, JP., Simões, A. (eds) Languages, Applications and Technologies. SLATE 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 563. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27653-3_10

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