padawan12 wrote:
Chris McCormick wrote:
Also, I hate to be cynical, but I can't see any way even remotely in which Google could use Pd to make a profit. ;)
Profit aside, you can make a fundamental partition in computing between forward looking systems (predictive, generative, hypothetical, AI, imaginative type systems) and backward looking (retrospective, analytical, indexing, organising, sort, search, existing value based systems). A bit like left and right brain faculties. Most problems involve elements of both, but Google's domain (search) really falls more into the latter, while applications of Pd are constructive and fall better into the former.
Hmmm, maybe a project to find and install any Pd external missing from a patch...
Martin