31 Jan
2007
31 Jan
'07
9:22 p.m.
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On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:31:37AM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 00:02 -0500, Chuckk Hubbard
wrote:
Heh, "embarassment"?
We're all Linux users here. It's always fun to have a look at the Linux
distribution family tree. Or the Unix family tree, that one's interesting too. Or the
family tree of languages like lisp. Or of political or artistic movements.
Most of us are musicians too, it's also fun to have a look at the family tree of the
various styles/genres of music.
To paraphrase a famous muppet: fork fork fork fork fork fork.
I've found that petty disputes and arbitrary forks are common for almost every field
of human endeavour.
They tend to be fractals, splitting infinitely and recursively. Occasionally they merge or
hit a dead-end, but I've found the overall trend is towards more diversity, not less.
It's a subjective impression though. It may be one of those "half-full,
half-empty" things, and I've no way to document or quantify it, so I'll just
leave it at that.
- -ken
On 29 Jan 2007 23:37:39 -0500, Michal Seta
<mis(a)artengine.ca> wrote:
no. only jMax (which is not really compatible with Max, although it sort
of is) and pd (which seems at least as good as Max/MSP in almost every
way).
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.
Max/MSP... well... I guess you should head the
cycling74 way... but
then, it almost seems like every album in the
IDM/glitch/microsound/whatever style in the past 10 or so years was
done with Max/MSP.
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