[PD] Pd standalone instruments ...
Claude Heiland-Allen
claudiusmaximus at goto10.org
Mon Aug 7 16:50:11 CEST 2006
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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