[PD] PDDP meeting?

[Chris McCormick]

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 12:13:50AM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Tue, 2 May 2006, Chris McCormick wrote:
> 
> I would like that those who care, go read the original thread, and they'll

Sure, sounds good. I think we might be the only ones reading though. ;)

It could be that I took your reply to David as referencing our previous
conversation on pd-dev in error, and if that's the case as you seem to
indicate, then I apologise for the second time for that blunder and my
insensitive reply. Since it's come up again though, I'd like to re-iterate
what I was trying to say in those emails, because I think it's important.

You have often expressed exasperation at the shortcomings of Pd in terms
of using it as a programming language. What I have been trying to say
is that maybe the original intention of the Pd language isn't to be a
fully fledged programming language, but instead an artist's tool with
some dataflow programming-like features. I think it would ease some of
your concerns about Pd if you saw it that way, and maybe you would ease
back a bit on the sometimes hostile attacks and just write code to make
it do what you want instead. There's no point in saying that the horse
doesn't have a long enough trunk, if the horse doesn't even pretend to
be an elephant.

Yrs, amicably,

Chris.

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