[PD] data structures......

[jamal crawford]

hey list

> But now, we can just farm out that sort of stuff to other programs.
ideas worth spreading???

> Compared to the amount of effort it takes to learn them, and how
> effective they actually are, data structures are just too
> un-economical.
>
i can NOT second that, even for a non-programmer like myself.

> 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.
>

in nearly 101 years of Luigi Russolos *L'Arte dei Rumori *existence
... maybe vi need to wait another 85??? (yes coffee and beer, you can
drink both)

> look, i LOVE pd and couldn't live without it....

i second THAT "emotion"! :)

anybody tried to implement complex fractals in data structures?




> From: i go bananas <hard.off at gmail.com> To: IOhannes m zmölnig
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> 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.

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