Re: [PD] max msp vs pd

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Paul Sellis wrote:

Sorry for this naive question, but I have heard completly different things about jMax :

• "it's like Max but with bugs added"
• "it's a prettier young sister of Pure Data"

It was both. However jMax is dead and all its users have migrated to PureData. The #dataflow IRC channel (on irc.freenode.net) was started by 3rd party developers of jMax (originally as #jmax) and for a very long time was almost jMax-only, but the balance tilted in late 2003 and now it's almost PureData-only.

jMax is mostly a "running gag" on pd-list, pd-dev, #dataflow, and such. A good way to troll is to pretend to prefer jMax for everyday use.

Mathieu Bouchard - tél:+1.514.383.3801 - http://artengine.ca/matju Freelance Digital Arts Engineer, Montréal QC Canada