[PD] PD usability

[mark]

" and with some learning [shock horror] PD is *very* useable. the
progress bar install that you appear to be imagining is milk and cookies
for a person that would [if addicted to such 'comforts'] would not have
the curiosity to grokk PD or MaxMSP anyway. but then again, i may simply
just be a person equally addicted to learning about what's going on in
my computer, how and why.. so much so i believe it actually good for
people [and computers] ;)"

No matter how much you argue that PD is useable - and I agree with you
it is very
uesable there will always be a class of users who want it to be laid on
a plate 
for them- this is the wider market - people who currently use Max/MSP
and 
would be tempted away. Non technial Mucisians and artists who would use 
it etc. 

I would prefer to see the "market" for PD grow organically. As we make 
the program easier to use for ourselves its user base will grow. There
is no 
reason to appeal to larger user base - its more work for us and there is

little or no benefit.