[PD] "object" or "class" in pdpedia

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> This is a "me too"-message from me: For the same reasons as Thomas I'd 
> prefer to stick with "object". While "class" is more correct, I think 
> the difference is something only computer scientists are interested in

Until they use abstractions with sends/receives and they hit the problem 
that they want to separate one instance from another. Then you have to 
teach $0 and you have to teach the difference.

> and Pd has a tradition of not always following the path of mainstream 
> computer science anyway, because it's not a tool mainly targetting 
> computer scientists but one targetting artists.

and so what? it's still programming. It's still targeted at people who do 
programming by their very act of using pd. A programmer is someone who 
programs.

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