On 27 Mar 2012, at 18:41, Roman Haefeli wrote:
I can only speak for myself (your opinion obviously differs), but I actually find the list-abs library pretty useful. Though, I am sometimes not using it directly, but copy&pasting stuff from it to my patches. And sometimes I really use it as a library. I find the goal of it being only vanilla rather a pragmatic than an academic one.
I also expect Frank not to have made it only for academia's sake.
I also find it useful especially for "pure Pd" projects.
However, I would add that had it been developed for academic reasons only, this wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. [list-abs] is a gold mine of Pd patching techniques and there's a lot to learn from it even if you don't use it.
It's like a pragmatic API, with a very informative implementation!
best,
Jamie