On 10/16/07, Frank Barknecht <fbar@footils.org> wrote:
Hallo,
Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>
> >I believe, the choice between a 1-dimensional language like SC and a
> >2-dimensional one like Pd is a state of mind thing. I do my fair share
> >of 1-dim programming,
>
> Non-graphical languages are still 2-dimensional as they are written,
> because people use lines (rows) as logical units of code. The compiler
> makes a largely 1-dimensional interpretation of it, but this is not how
> people write and read code. Similarly, Pd almost completely ignores the
> actual position of the objects (except [inlet] and [outlet]) when
> interpreting a patch.
In usual text based languages like C, Lisp, Forth, Python, Java, ...
the second dimension is largely irrelevant, because every identifier
only is concerned with what's left or right of it, not what's on top