[PD] control-flow (Re: jMax Phoenix)

[ALAN BROOKER]

At one point Jmax was going to be revived as pymax- with a python front end

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:28 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>wrote:

> On 2010-09-22 20:58, Bernardo Barros wrote:
> > Well maybe there is a Python object? If it has a neat and clean
> > implementations would be brilliant.
>
> i guess you are not really aware that there _is_ a python object?
> and bindings to all other kinds of languages, like lua,...
>
> >
> > 2010/9/22 Bernardo Barros <bernardobarros2 at gmail.com>:
> >> the only solution I see to write this kind of things in Max-like
> >> languages is to allow the user to just open a text-box and write what
> >> he/she wants in python or supercollider :-) that's for control
> >> structures, loops, etc
>
> if this is the only solution you see then you might really have some
> problems with the way Pd works :-)
>
> however, despite my brilliant defense of the Pd language, i would like
> to point out that there are indeed a lot of control-flow things that you
> cannot solve easily within a patcher language.
> some of them will probably always become unreadable spaghetti.
>
> that's why my second language is C/C++ (which i find much mor readable
> and esp. writeable than python)
>
> hmad
> IOhannes
>
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