On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
and the one between pd, pd, pd and pd. (anyone up for some disambiguation?)
Don't forget about "Pd" which is the official way to abbreviate "Pure Data" (sic!) if you accept Miller's papers since 1996 as reference.
That's another problem: I was talking about ambiguity, not about aliases.
Ambiguity: "pd" can mean:
the Pure Data environment itself
the [pd] class, for making subpatch
the pd receiver, for system messages, like [; pd dsp 1<
a t_pd, which is what would be called "an object" in the terminology of
other languages. However, I can think of five meanings (not four) for the word "object" in pd, and I haven't really searched for them.
Aliases: when you download "Pure Data" or "Pd" from Miller, it's in a tarball whose filename starts with "pd". To start it, run the command "pd" in Linux or "Pd" in OSX. Community sites about it are called "puredata" or "pure-data", but GEM's SF directory is called "pd-gem", and mailing-lists are called "pd-list" "pd-dev" ...
However, most of the time I write it PureData so that it looks like one word yet also like two; and so that it looks like a "proper noun"; and because I'd rather call it "PureData" than "Pd" because the latter sounds like "pédé", which is a public (or pubic) relation problem in French.
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