[PD] FLOSS book Lists chapter

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Andy Farnell wrote:

> The sensitivity of sound to small changes in implementation has been on 
> my mind from the start, so if you like the emphasis was on a reliably 
> portable functional equivalence without code compatability. I have 
> always taken this, perhaps presumptuously, as one of Miller's strong 
> principles. Without it the slogan "The diagram is the program" fails,

When I came up with that slogan, I wasn't thinking about portability nor 
functional equivalence, and I still don't see how they are related.

Even though portability is nice and functional equivalence is also nice.

« The diagram is the program » only meant that unlike other dataflow 
diagrams that people may have seen in the context of software engineering, 
those pd diagrams are source code that can be run as-is. I came up with 
the sentence while trying to explain pd, because I showed a pd patch and 
the other person didn't realise that it was not a form of high-level 
documentation for something else.

> and one cannot use Pd to write books, teach or otherwise share datafow 
> programs in a purely visual way.

I'm following even less...

> The commercial advantages too, as the RjDj project benefitted from and 
> upheld, are ease of maintenance and widespread compatability across 
> diverse hardware.

Is RjDj using ZenGarden, or LibPd, or both ?

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