On Jan 13, 2013, at 4:11 AM, Ross Bencina <rossb-lists_at_audiomulch.com> wrote:
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>> PD is a Turing complete language anyway..
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> Indeed. However David gave the example of Pd being used without conditional logic.
Which is nearly impossible. Almost every Max/Pd object has implicit conditionals : IF something comes in a right inlet, it is stored. IF something comes in the left inlet, it triggers a calculation.
Also in dataflow (and array) programming, things which would be conditionals in languages that process data one at a time, get abstracted away in filter and fold operators. It is possible to express programs in APL for example that have no if statements but would require them if the same program were written in a language that only natively processes scalars.
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