[PD] opinions on the issue of concurrent implementations (was: getting sample rate of file loaded into an array)

[Patrice Colet]

> De: "IOhannes m zmölnig" <zmoelnig at iem.at>
> On 10/04/2012 05:04 PM, Patrice Colet wrote:
> > 
> >  We should use C language only when we need it, in the example of
> >  [waveinfo] vs [soundfile_info], both aren't the good way for me,
> > we just need the [binfile] external for reading the header, and all
> > the other stuff can be done into a pd patch.
> > 
> 
> we don't need [binfile]!
> 

how do you read the header without binfile? 

> Pd is proven to be turing complete, so it should be easy enough to
> write
> an operating system entirely in Pd (that is: a patch) that will allow
> you to read/write soundfiles in any desired format.


pd is not even able to read extended precision, that's why pd can't tell about aiff samplerate.