On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Andy Farnell wrote:
The sensitivity of sound to small changes in implementation has been on my mind from the start, so if you like the emphasis was on a reliably portable functional equivalence without code compatability. I have always taken this, perhaps presumptuously, as one of Miller's strong principles. Without it the slogan "The diagram is the program" fails,
When I came up with that slogan, I wasn't thinking about portability nor functional equivalence, and I still don't see how they are related.
Even though portability is nice and functional equivalence is also nice.« The diagram is the program » only meant that unlike other dataflow diagrams that people may have seen in the context of software engineering, those pd diagrams are source code that can be run as-is. I came up with the sentence while trying to explain pd, because I showed a pd patch and the other person didn't realise that it was not a form of high-level documentation for something else.
and one cannot use Pd to write books, teach or otherwise share datafow programs in a purely visual way.
I'm following even less...
The commercial advantages too, as the RjDj project benefitted from and upheld, are ease of maintenance and widespread compatability across diverse hardware.
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