[PD] [PD-announce] pd 0.47-0 test 1 released

[Matt Barber]

[list-abs] is IMO one of the best accomplishments in Pd. I use it for
teaching all the time, because each abstraction is designed to solve a
little — but nontrivial — problem. Students often tend not to to be all
that interested in the unsexy land of control algorithms until they need
something, and [list-abs] is a trove of solutions.

It's why I started working on an [array-abs]. Maybe soon someone will do a
[text-abs].

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 5:41 AM, Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 12:06:58PM -0400, Matt Barber wrote:
> > I don't know, I have a huge soft spot for [list-drip]. I think it's the
> > paradigmatic example of how to do a recursive function in Pd (naive
> > approaches to which usually die with a stack overflow). It makes sense to
> > have a built-in iteration method for [list], but I'd kind of selfishly
> hate
> > to obsolete [list-drip]. It's great for teaching because it makes
> students
> > think a lot about how things are implemented.
>
> [list]-abs even still include the very slow list-dripslow.pd, which is
> only useful for teaching speed comparisons. :)
>
> BTW.: I'm still impressed of list-abs being useful after several years, but
> I'm also sorry for not having the time to update it to include some useful
> new features of recent Pd versions.
>
> Ciao
>
> --
>  Frank Barknecht                                     _ ______footils.org__
>
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