[PD] OT - C++ for reusable dsp lib - or better use C?

[Mathieu Bouchard]

Le 2012-02-26 à 10:53:00, Phil Stone a écrit :
> On 2/26/12 10:29 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>> Le 2012-02-25 à 14:29:00, Phil Stone a écrit :
>>> I also like programming in "word" languages,
>> 
>> For what I presume you call a non-word language, Pd has quite a large 
>> vocabulary of words in it.
>
> I'm pretty sure you, and most readers of this list, understand the 
> distinction I am making between graphics-dominated and text-dominated 
> programming environments. Perhaps the scare quotes should be a tip that I'm 
> not speaking in exactitudes at that moment. :-)

I know, but I still think that it was worth mentioning, just like I'd 
doubt that Pd is that much graphics-dominated... I know the distinction 
you're trying to make, and the graphics part of Pd is what we notice the 
most, but there's an awful (or awesome) lot of text in there. It's nice 
like that, though. I wouldn't trade a language to get a bucketful of 
icons. More often than not, one word is worth a thousand pictures.

We won't be able to find what % of importance the graphics have in Pd in 
comparison to plain-text languages, but this time, I just want to point 
out that graphics in Pd look like they're dominating only because we're 
used to have text take nearly all the room.

I don't necessarily have good replacement adjectives to provide you with.

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