On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 integer@www.god-emil.dk wrote:
pd isnt free. [perhaps if one is 99 prozent brain free]
sweeping statements are polluting and opinions are cheap. you advertise like coca-cola.
is pd better +? well ___... different shades of u gli ness. most of the data worth anything has been authored by
3rd parties.
it's called open source collaboration. see gnu/linux.
overall max + msp + pd + gem = rigid \ uneventful + ultra ugggggllllllyy xy refuse. as most everything else in the digital domain.
thanks to Thomas Grill + Larry Troxler, you can write Python and Scheme within PD, which makes it quite the opposite of 'rigid', and in fact offers the user a way to do almost anything, wihout paying a license fee (as opposed to max, NATO, etc.). This means 'ugly' and 'rigid' now depend on you state of mind and skills as a programmer, not on the framework.
the real refuse of the 'digital domain' are the ultra-opinionated pseudocharacters who pile hipocritical releases of their own commercial, cryptically wonderful software, and who blame the tools to appear to be the cool, alternative solution.
get on with it.
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