Hallo, Chris McCormick hat gesagt: // Chris McCormick wrote:
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:57:03AM +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Chris McCormick wrote:
Here are some other reasons why you might not want to use Pd to develop a large scale application (and why I won't call Pd a 'programming language'):
- No hash/map/table type, or array type that holds anything except floats.
data structures?
Pd datastructures are a pretty poor compromise when one is used to the types of data structures that regular programming languages supply, and the ease with which you can use those data structures. In javascript, Python or C I can just say something like: t = ["hello", "goodbye", "pants land", ["a", "b", 'c']];
Doing a similar thing in Pd is a pain.
I think, from the beginning Pd was meant to be extended by classes written in other languages where adaequate. Pd has support for more languages like this than any other similar progam I know. C is the natural choice here, but if Pd would include Lua support natively, it would invalidate almost every single argument against Pd that you mentioned: scriptability would be there (even for audio with Vessel for Lua), a hash/map-type is natural to Lua with its table data structure, string processing would be easier etc.
In the end, it then would boil down to the differences between graphical progamming and text based programming. Some things are hard to do in graphical languages regardless of their features.
Ciao
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