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[Chuckk Hubbard]

I think it's just as important to find an elegant wording to describe
just what "data structures" and "pointers" are for people with little
experience, who might be deciding what programming environment to
learn.  I remember being intrigued and yet really intimidated by the
explanation in the manual.
I usually tell people Pd lets you make lists of arbitrary items, each
of which has certain parameters that you decide, and Pd does whatever
you tell it to do with each item according to those parameters.  I
make it too abstract for most people.


On 4/1/06, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>
> On Apr 1, 2006, at 2:45 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>
> > Hallo,
> > david golightly hat gesagt: // david golightly wrote:
> >
> >> Hey, that's a good point.  Anyone got any dazzling examples of data
> >> structures?  (Frank B?  Anyone?)
> >
> > I'd suggest to use: http://at.or.at/hans/solitude
>
> I think that's a good example of how Miller intended the graphical
> data structures to be used.  But personally, I think Frank' examples
> really highlight something much bigger and more important: that the
> data structures should be seen as a flexible what of making GUIs,
> displaying/storing data, etc.  That's the direction we should push,
> an open-ended system, rather than just something to write musical
> scores.  Plus Frank has cranked out so many great interactive patches.
>
> I guess the Solitude image looks nice when you say "this makes music".
>
> .hc
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