[PD] PDDP meeting?

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, David Powers wrote:

> How can one do object-oriented PD (there are at least some parallels),
> and how might that differ from other approaches?

First you have to avoid those who say that PD is only for music and/or 
video; they can't put the word "application" or "program" on a patch or a 
set of patches, it has to be called "patches".

Second you have to avoid those who say PD isn't object-oriented and
especially those who think that you should not use anything that "looks" 
too object-oriented because it wouldn't fit the "dataflow paradigm", 
whatever that is.

Third is a rule for OOP in general, in any language: the final goal is
never to make a program "more OOP", it's to make a program better, by any 
"paradigm" necessary.

> What are typical problems that one can expect to encounter, including
> problems relating to different platforms and limitations of PD, and what
> are good strategies to overcome these limitations?

heeee... getting abstraction arguments to work exactly like external
arguments? Sometimes things are easier in C than in Pd (and that's sad).

But that's a very wide question and the answers you'll get will never
paint a complete picture, no matter which programming language it is being
asked about, even though I think that Pd has more holes than almost all 
programming languages.

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