I just saw a preview of pd-extended's new help menu!!! it will include a direct link to the #dataflow irc chat... (besides pdpedia.org). marius.
Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, Thomas Grill hat gesagt: // Thomas Grill wrote:
Since i don't like a program to educate me, but i rather like to use a program to do things that i want, the new Max features will help with that. The pd-based vibrez gui has also always separated the patcher logic from the gui, and i'm already curious to compare the two systems. To my mind it will be increasingly hard for pd to keep up with Max, now given also partial dsp multi-kernel support and the possible linux port.
May be, but then, Max almost always was in advance of Pd as far as issues like usability are concerned, and still Pd was popular. Probably the new Max will make some people change their minds again, but in general I believe, both Pd and Max can coexist quite well and even learn from each other. And Max will never beat Pd's price.
Ciao