[PD] DIY GSoC: getting those projects done

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Chris McCormick wrote:

> IIRC, one of their complaints from last year was that our application 
> had too many parts. Next time we should pick just one or two specific 
> tasks and go with them. Maybe with a community vote or whatever. Also, I 
> hate to be cynical, but I can't see any way even remotely in which 
> Google could use Pd to make a profit. ;) Thanks for your huge effort 
> anyway, Hans and Georg.

It's not just that, it's that Pd is still relatively non-mainstream. I can 
imagine plenty (or even most) of programmers being allergic to Pd and 
thinking it's messy, difficult to program with, and generally an exercise 
in contorsion. I mean, what do you do with a language that has no builtin 
[demux] (that's called an if-else anywhere else), in which hot-vs-cold is 
troublesome (else [expr] wouldn't be *so* attractive), etc.; if 
programmers that don't use pd had a better opinion of pd, some things like 
this could have more of a chance. That's when supposing Google is trying 
to stay neutral and not selecting for profit. Else it's an ever harder 
game, I suppose.

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