On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Chris McCormick wrote:
IIRC, one of their complaints from last year was that our application
had too many parts. Next time we should pick just one or two specific
tasks and go with them. Maybe with a community vote or whatever. Also, I
hate to be cynical, but I can't see any way even remotely in which
Google could use Pd to make a profit. ;) Thanks for your huge effort
anyway, Hans and Georg.
It's not just that, it's that Pd is still relatively non-mainstream. I can
imagine plenty (or even most) of programmers being allergic to Pd and
thinking it's messy, difficult to program with, and generally an exercise
in contorsion. I mean, what do you do with a language that has no builtin
[demux] (that's called an if-else anywhere else), in which hot-vs-cold is
troublesome (else [expr] wouldn't be *so* attractive), etc.; if
programmers that don't use pd had a better opinion of pd, some things like
this could have more of a chance. That's when supposing Google is trying
to stay neutral and not selecting for profit. Else it's an ever harder
game, I suppose.
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