[PD] elitism, software and academia (was GEM FTGL Sadness)

[marius schebella]

john saylor wrote:

> computers use math to do audio [dsp, convolution, ...]. so you need to
> study math [not really that much for most applications, but it does
> help]. 

I don't think that is true. you definitely don't need to study math to 
make music. you don't need programming skills to use a computer.
pd is a programming language. a pd-patch is a part of an instrument. if 
you "only" want to use the instrument just start playing.

marius.