[PD] DIY GSoC: getting those projects done

Jonathan Wilkes jancsika at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 26 08:58:48 CET 2009





--- On Wed, 3/25/09, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:

> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
> Subject: Re: [PD] DIY GSoC: getting those projects done
> To: "Chris McCormick" <chris at mccormick.cx>
> Cc: "Pd List" <pd-list at iem.at>
> Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 6:01 PM
> 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)

Does [expr~ if ( $f2 == 0, $v1, 0 ); etc.] fill that role?  (If so, it certainly strengthens your following point.)

-Jonathan

, 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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