On 2/25/07, carmen _@whats-your.name wrote:
On Sun Feb 25, 2007 at 01:51:33AM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Feb 20, 2007, at 9:14 PM, Derek Holzer wrote:
Hi Jared,
for what it's worth, I've been working with PD for years and I still can't read most other people's patches ;-)
Everybody has their own style, their own "handwriting", and some are more readable than others. Diving right into somebody's finished patch is pretty difficult for an experienced user, and almost impossible for a beginner, I'd say! If you were trying to learn German, would you start by reading Goethe?
Partially, I think this is due to lack of common practice in coding style and things like that. Most languages, programming or other, have a lot of standard practices when it comes to writing them done in different contexts. For whatever reason, the Pd/Max world has not developed many conventions, and I think that makes reading other people's patches harder.
it couldnt possibly be beacuse the whole point or essence of a patch is often sphaghetti, or that theres no way to zoom out to see all the subpatches and abstractions on a single window..
Well there are text editors... This is an interesting idea, but even such a zooming feature couldn't show all the sends and receives or throw/catch pairs, could it?
-Chuckk