On 2/25/07, carmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun Feb 25, 2007 at 01:51:33AM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > > > On Feb 20, 2007, at 9:14 PM, Derek Holzer wrote: > > > > > Hi Jared, > > > > > > for what it's worth, I've been working with PD for years and I still > > > can't read most other people's patches ;-) > > > > > > Everybody has their own style, their own "handwriting", and some are > > > more readable than others. Diving right into somebody's finished patch > > > is pretty difficult for an experienced user, and almost impossible > > > for a > > > beginner, I'd say! If you were trying to learn German, would you start > > > by reading Goethe? > > > > Partially, I think this is due to lack of common practice in coding > > style and things like that. Most languages, programming or other, > > have a lot of standard practices when it comes to writing them done > > in different contexts. For whatever reason, the Pd/Max world has not > > developed many conventions, and I think that makes reading other > > people's patches harder. > > it couldnt possibly be beacuse the whole point or essence of a patch is often > sphaghetti, > or that theres no way to zoom out to see all the subpatches and abstractions > on a single > window..
Well there are text editors... This is an interesting idea, but even such a zooming feature couldn't show all the sends and receives or throw/catch pairs, could it? -Chuckk -- http://www.badmuthahubbard.com _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
