Comments on: Yahoo Pipes RSS Tool Takes Patching Mainstream

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:10:50 +0000

Thanks, Jarbas — I knew there were some others. It seems the Interwebs don’t have screen grabs of the earlier programs, sadly. The Hookup and Patcher both deserve special mention because they were intended for real-time media. What’s striking to me is that Pipes is an almost direct rip-off of QC’s very distinctive look. But conceptually, these have very early antecedents.

I wish there were more modern tools for visualizing code function graphically and merging those worlds; there are many things that do this but usually the relation of one to the other is very basic. One would think with OOP that there would be innovative new ways of doing this.

By: Jarbas JÃƒÂ¡come

Jarbas JÃƒÂ¡come — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:07:16 +0000

Nice article!

About the patching origins in music software, your assumption is right. In Max at Seventeen, Miller cited Oedit (1980) by Richard Steiger and Roger Hale.

Also, Mark Coniglio (Isadora author) cited in this interview the Hookup(1986) by David Levitt.

Thank you for the good site!!
j.jR.

By: Jarbas Jr.

Jarbas Jr. — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:02:18 +0000

Nice article!

About the patching origins in music software, in Max at Seventeen, Miller cited Oedit (1980) by Richard Steiger and Roger Hale.

And Mark Coniglio (Isadora author) cited in this interview the Hookup(1986) by David Levitt.

Thank you for the good site!
j.jR.