On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 09:42:33PM +0200, pd-list-request@iem.at wrote:
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 21:11:06 +0200 From: Tim Blechmann TimBlechmann@gmx.net Subject: Re: [PD] escaping
To: Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca Cc: pd-list pd-list@iem.at, martin pichlmair pi@attacksyour.net, Thoralf Schulze thoralf_schulze@yahoo.de Message-ID: 20050707211106.303fc1ca@localhost Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCIIWell, I believe that there is no such design that can really obviate the need for a general escape mechanism.
well, yeah. what about unicode, btw? After all, we are not living in the 1990s anymore ...
How about _strings_ too? we are not living in the 1950s anymore... :-)
well... use a professional programming language, if you need strings ... your answer would be ruby, kjetils answer would be scheme, my answer would be python
Hi Tim,
Can you please provide a good reason why puredata shouldn't carry the features itself of 'a professional programming language'? It seems somewhat hypocritical to complain about non-portability of patches and then follow up with a comment like this, which would require users to have every possible 3rd party scripting language installed if they want to use strings.
Best regards,
Chris.
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