[PD] CONVENTION /// was Re: some images...

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Alexandre Quessy wrote:

> I enjoyed Miller's talk about Pd being already very interesting, and not 
> needing too much changes in the future, but I still think that some 
> things could be changed for the better, regarding symbols, threads, 
> docs, Gem, libraries, etc.

Miller's talk was rather vague: to some people it sounded like "pd will 
stagnate", but at the same time, it didn't quite say what was going to 
stay the same. A lot of pd has to stay the same no matter what, but people 
wouldn't quite agree on how much.

I think that the most important thing Pd needs at the moment is to get 
away from sedimentary programming (that is, deposit more code on top of 
the existing code) and metamorphic programming (applying intense peer 
pressure on the sediment makes it harder), if you excuse my mineralogy 
metaphors...

That's why we started getting into automatic testing (re: the last talk at 
pd convention)

> (I am writing a little OpenGL OSC client for Pd meanwhile... :)  )

Don't you mean OpenCV instead?

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