[PD] Design / Philosophy principles behind Pd development

[Jérôme Abel]

Thanks!

The documents highlight by Albert Rafetseder help me to find some answers.

 From Miller's writing "The Deadly Embrace Between Music Software and 
Its Users" (http://msp.ucsd.edu/Publications/pdf_EMS14_puckette.pdf), I 
would synthetise as follow.

The three most important criteria in development of Pd:

  * longevity:
      o limit of maintainability < 100 000 lines of code (not 10 000
        indeed !)
      o usable lifetime of 50 years : avoid adding any but the most
        carefully justified and planned extensions now
  * new versions of Pd should run older patches compatibly (For me, it
    sounds like the first criteria)
  * Pd should never stop working unexpectedly during a live performance

<3

j.

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