[PD] Pd *is* a programming language!

Christian Klippel ck at mamalala.de
Thu Sep 28 19:26:51 CEST 2006


hi,

Am Donnerstag, 28. September 2006 18:25 schrieb Claude Heiland-Allen:
> Hi everybody,
>
> Remember those long discussions about whether Pd is a programming
> language or (an inferior) something else?
>
> Well, to settle the matter, I made a brainf*ck[1] interpreter in vanilla
> Pd using no externals[2].
>
> Now you can be sure that you can compute anything computable[3] using
> your favourite multimedia tool!
>

this is just great! fantastic!

> As Pd's string handling sucks, output is a printout of the decimal value
> of each character.
>

uhm, hey ... think about it that way: it makes a perfect couple for brainfuck 
that way ;)

> Keyboard input is through [key], so you enter characters fairly
> naturally (wait for the yellow signal before you type each character).
> There is no way to indicate end-of-file.
>

why not as decimal values as well, to match the output? ;-D

greets,

chris




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