[PD] data structures......

[i go bananas]

in relation to Pd-l2ork,

guys, what's the status of having a 'libpd' for l2ork???  is that possible?


sorry for going off topic...but it is something i have wanted to ask for
ages.

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 6:33 PM, i go bananas <hard.off at gmail.com> wrote:

> IOhannes,
>
> that's kinda what i thought....
>
> but really, come on...pd's interface is it's weakest point.  When miller
> started working on the data structures, libpd and all that didn't even
> exist.  But now, we can just farm out that sort of stuff to other programs.
>
>
> Compared to the amount of effort it takes to learn them, and how effective
> they actually are, data structures are just too un-economical.
>
> in nearly 15 years of their existence, i think i can still count on both
> hands how many good implementations of them i have seen.
>
> look, i LOVE pd and couldn't live without it....but it just seems like any
> minute spent on data structures is a minute that could be way better spent
> on other stuff.
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:54 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>
> wrote:
>
>> On 11/12/2014 03:33 PM, i go bananas wrote:
>> >
>> > couldn't that work be put to better use?
>> >
>>
>> depends on your definition of "better".
>>
>> if i understand correctly, "data structures" have been _the_ motivation
>> for writing Pd (as opposed to continue with max), so i think we owe them
>> :-)
>>
>> gfmrdsa
>> IOhannes
>>
>>
>>
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