[PD] Abstractions x Externals

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Wed Feb 16 14:33:20 CET 2011


On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Bryan Jurish wrote:

> On 2011-02-16 14:02:52, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> appears to
> have written:
>> On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Alexandre Porres wrote:
>>
>>> I was thinking of externals as anything that can be loaded as an
>>> object or library - like any non native/pd vanilla object - at startup.
>>
>> I'm sure, though, that you can find a word for it. Anyone got an idea
>> about how to name this ?
>>
>> "Non-internal classes", "classes outside of the main executable" ?
>
> "user-defined objects" ?
> "non-primitive objects"? ... or maybe "civilized objects" ? ;-)

hehe

also, "non-builtin classes" ?

(why do you say "objects" instead of "classes" here ?)

Also I just noticed some words on the front page of puredata.info that 
might be quite confusing :

« It is easy to extend Pd by writing object classes ("externals") or 
patches ("abstractions"). »

...?

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