On 9/18/06, Chris McCormick chris@mccormick.cx wrote:
I would be interested to know where you get your data on the number of people using datastructures.
By having attended PdConvention04 and Piksel05, by reading pd-list and pd-dev for four years, by founding the #dataflow channel and sitting in it for five years, and then, by organising twenty-two usergroup meetings that consist of 2-6 talks each.
That is a lot of experience and has obviously given you a good insight into certain kinds of Pd users, but it's all what I'd call anecdotal evidence. It would be nice to get actual survey data from users of this list as to what libraries, features, distributions of Pd people work with and hack on. Hmmm, maybe we (collectively) should knock together a nice survey?
Speaking as a non-hacker, the datastructures are the only thing that makes me choose Pd over Max or Reaktor or Csound. -Chuckk