Re: Pattern-generating Scheme function challenge

[Thomas Morley]

2013/7/21 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 2013/7/21 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>>> Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hi Harm,
>>>>
>>>> I did a quick compilation (further investigation to follow) - and
>>>> that's awesome! Thenk you very much.
>>>> Of course it will be hard to 'sell' it with a 'hey, look how easy it
>>>> is to realize that with LilyPond ;-)
>>>
>>> Let's see how we can improve on that.
>> [...]
>>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> thanks a lot for your thoughts, proposals and the effort you've put on this.
>> I was sure that there were several instances in my code which could
>> have been done better.
>
> I'm great at improving things and bad at doing them in the first place.
> Because I can't bring myself to write something down that "merely" works
> first, and then improve it afterwards.
>
>> Though, because noone else came up with a working solution, I posted
>> it in it's current state.
>
> Sure.  Getting something done is important as a first step.
>
>> Will have a closer look later this evening.
>
> A programming environment/language is well designed if the first
> solution that comes to mind is not far from elegant and/or optimal.
>
> The way LilyPond's components tie together and that our learning
> material helps with understanding and leads to further documentation
> does not exactly make that easy.
>
> It's one of the reasons I tailride on such threads and try promoting
> simpler solutions, and when everything else fails, write helper routines
> to make this possible.
>
> --
> David Kastrup

Hi David, Urs,

I'm sorry I didn't try to improve my recent code with David's proposals.

In a few hours (after sleep) I'll start my vacations, being offline
for three weeks.
Perhaps someone else might catch the ball.

Cheers,
  Harm