--- On Thu, 8/20/09, Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PD] Hot inlet position > To: "Gabriel Vinazza" <[email protected]> > Cc: "puredata mailing list" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009, 5:09 PM > On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Gabriel Vinazza > wrote: > > > Miller, I enjoyed very much reading your note, thanks > for sharing your achievements and concerns. As an > artist, I found lots of answers on Pd. Many of the things > you seem to be worry about are clearly reflected on the > software and all the community. > > I hope as many people who read that paper can read it > critically. Several of the ideas contained therein are > detrimental and harmful to the perception and evolution of > Pd/Max. Things like: Max isn't a "programming environment", > and even less a "real-world programming environment"; > features are left out because Max users aren't professional > programmers; Max is "lacking any notion of linear > control-flow" (whatever that means???); Max doesn't have > scoping because musicians don't need it; the idea that > object-oriented programming is all about inheritance; > elegance in code has nothing to do with making creative > music; the computer-science crowd preaches that reuse of > code is essential to communicating knowledge; Max somehow > opposed itself to computer science; "The computer should > ideally feel in the musician's hands like a musical > instrument, needing only to be tuned up and then played" > (!!!); etc... well I should put a (!!!) after each of those > phrases. If you need any justification from me for any > item(s) on this list I will provide it (if I did it all > upfront, it could be long like a paper). I think jmax phoenix has scoping. Does DesireData? What's the status of DesireData these days, anyway? It looks like the roadmap hasn't been updated for quite a while. -Jonathan _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
