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Computer music: a bastion of interactive visual dataflow languages

• parenthesis 17y ago
  Max/MSP is commercial/proprietary ; Pd ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Data http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Data ) is a BSD-licensed alternative (Miller Puckette is the original author of both). In the commercial arena, see also Reaktor ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaktor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaktor ).
• Hexstream 17y ago
  I think it's pretty safe to say that dataflow is one of the most severely underused programming paradigms today. (I'm not fond of "visual" programming however, except where it opens new possibilities to someone who would never dream of programming the "real" way).
  • zzkt 17y ago
    Ptolemy is an academic project work looking at. From this perspective, its an attempt to incorporate some of the advantages of 'real' programming into a visual environment. http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptolemyII/ptIIlatest/ http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptolemyII/ptIIlatest/
• slackenerny 17y ago
  I loved how Steele ridiculed visual programming in his "50 on 50" talk* by showing Piet † as exemplary for the paradigm. * http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3101 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3101 † http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_(programming_language) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_(programming_language)