On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, John Nowak wrote:
Does anyone know of a general purpose graphical dataflow language, possibly bleeding-edge? Sort of like a PD for everything?
PD is already a PD for everything.
(Well, almost so; at least it is so in spirit)
which I've recently briefly outlined on the Max list if anyone is over there as well.
Would you mind posting this list here?
So then... anyone know of anything, or is it back to Scheme for me then?
Why choose one or another when you can write Pd externals in Scheme and benefit from the advantages of both.
and I'd love to see it happen one day if it hasn't already. We're getting very close with environments like Max, LabVIEW, etc. I would like to see someone go all the way.
We better not get *that* close to LabVIEW. You know, those are the folks who just sued the Matlab/SimuLink company and WON. They have patents about various things dataflow, and the patents don't expire this decade.
But there has to be ways to make a complete dataflow system that is not too close to LabVIEW. After all there are thousands of programming languages in existence, more programming paradigms than people can wrap their heads around, and more variants of OOP than people want to care about.
"There's more than one way do it" isn't just a Perl motto, it's also a fundamental fact of computer programming. There's always many ways to think of any problem. (but the Perl motto was about a slightly different topic: whether _one_ language should offer several equivalent or overlapping constructs.)
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