On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 16:34 -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
that maybe the original intention of the Pd language isn't to be a
fully
fledged programming language, but instead an artist's tool with some dataflow programming-like features.
well, especially being an artistic tool, it shouldn't require the user to learn 1001 workarounds for trivial problems, nor should the user have to worry about obscure message vs. list problems ...
I'm always talking about what Pd could become and all I get answered is what Pd was meant to be.
i'm not sure, if anyone can say, what pd is meant to be ... but matju is right about one thing ... pd can't be improved, when everyone ignores it's weaknesses ("you don't want to load soundfiles clickfree", "you don't need to use tables on the x86_64 architecture") ...
t
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