Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
This all makes me think that we should write a Pd book that covers
things like good form. Perhaps we could make it a decentralized
collaborative effort with strange consensus decisionmaking to mirror
the Pd community :D
i guess that Pd might be out of existence when the book will be ready...
seriously, i do think that there are fundamentally (and not so fundamentally) different views on "good form" (as all the flaming on [t a] vs. [trigger anything] shows), and i don't think that we would come to a conclusion.
so i see 2 approaches to such project:
- a collection of several individiual "good style" articles; possibly
contradictory (e.g. in the way of the "beautiful code" book that primarily shows how differently "beauty" is perceived)
- a single (group of) person(s) that write(s) the book and can decide on
their definition of "good style"; since they do all the work, they have all the right to ignore (or whatever) other opinions
i personally would favour #1, but i think both approaches are legitimate
fgmadsr. IOhannes