[PD] Pd standalone instruments ...

[Claude Heiland-Allen]

Hi all,

Sorry for arriving so late in this thread, but no one mentioned this...

Martin Peach wrote:
> padawan12 wrote:
>>
>> I see a free software tool that does what Pd does
>> and outputs code as an inevitability, sooner or later, it's just the 
>> logical
>> thing to do. It's just that I'm rather scratching my head wondering 
>> why it doesn't
>> do so already. Perhaps I've forgotten some fundamental reason why 
>> exploding the netlist
>> into a code listing might not be trivial, reenterancy maybe,
 >
> Well possibly the fact that most pd patches are not strictly procedural, 
> a list of instructions that is run through once. Messages can arrive at 
> any time to modify what is going on...

...and Pd internal messages can change the program while it is running - 
self-modifying code would be a "fundamental reason why [that] might not 
be trivial".



Claude
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