On 1/30/07, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
IMHO, its still a real embarrasment to the entire family of miller puckette-derived visual programming languages that the petty disputes between each branch of the family tree have gone on for this long. i can only hope that pd will continue to increase in popularity until Cycling74 has no choice but to sit down and talk about how to get everyone back in the same boat. not that likely, i think.
Yeah doesn't sound likely. For me the deciding factor is Pd's data structures, allowing it to remember and graphically represent any pattern of variables. Max has something it calls data structures, but it's not the same thing at all. I haven't used Max much, but its advantage seems to be its high-level functions. It just has more built-in commands. In Pd these are usually kept in external libraries that have to be loaded individually. Csound, on the other hand, has hundreds of opcodes, and can be controlled directly from Pd with the csoundapi~ external. I'm starting to use this more. -Chuckk -- "Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." -Theodore Roosevelt
