[PD-ot] could pd be the ideal software?

[Tim Blechmann]

On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 09:03 +0200, Torsten Anders wrote:
> > I personally have been recently driven to make Pd a full-fledged 
> > programming language
> 
> How do you define 'a full-fledged programming language'? What do you 
> miss in PD? And why do you feel uncomfortable with existing
> programming 
> languages you may describe as 'full-fledged' so you need to beef up
> PD?
> 
> I am in general very sceptical whether visual programming languages 
> scale up for complex tasks (e.g. which visual programming language is 
> defined largely in itself -- as e.g. Lisp or SmallTalk usually are)
> but 
> I would be very interested if someone can show me otherwise. 

dataflow languages are very good to model data streams such as dsp
graphs or message streams (like sensor data), so it's very reasonable to
use a dataflow model for an audio programming language for projects of
any size ....

but the weakness is the control logic and data manipulation. the
expressive power of written programming languages is much bigger in
these aspects, not mentioning the debugging techniques.

t

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