[ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio Workflows revisited

[Kaj Ailomaa]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2015, at 05:00 PM, Len Ovens wrote:
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> What is the difference between creating a web page and creating a 
> document? A document creator, (AKA word processor) Is a text document
> with 
> extra tags etc to give form to the document... how is an html document 
> different? PD is more of a development thing in most ways.
> 
> I think the finished product is the main thing to look at.
> 
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Writing is about assembling a long sequence of words, be it on any
medium.
Storytelling is about putting together characters, plots and sequences
of events.
There are tools specifically for this.

html documents are about layout. The actual text is another matter all
together.

So, I don't see the correlation there myself regarding writing and
development.

PD is development, absolutely. And it can be used for all sorts of
things, though it is mainly targeted at creating live processing for
audio and video. There are others too.Supercollider, CSound. All of
those are specifically targeted at multimedia processing of some kind,
so they are not generic development languages/environments. 
And, therefore, I cannot see the correlation between that and say web
development. But, a lot of people seem to find artistic elements in
coding itself, which I find a little strange myself.