Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

[Pierre-Luc Gauthier]

>>> This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users

I'm ~30 years age.

Background:
At first using Music Sculptor(for about two years), then Note
Worthy(For about 2 years), then Finale(for about 6 years) and then a
rather abrupt transition(not being a programmer at all) to the
Lilypond software that I do now use regularly and have been for about
4 years.

Purpose:
I mostly do song arrangements for rock bands and "house bands" and few
orchestral arrangements.

My tool usage in a nutshell:
Everything I do is centered around the Git revision control system
using hooks, submodules, branches and what not. On top of that mr
(http://myrepos.branchable.com/), gitolite, Vim, Frescobaldi, shell
scripts, make files (They give me such a hard time!), LaTeX automated
"booklets" for musicians, Automated audio and midi files generation (I
am hoping to have automated audio sections (divided by rehearsal \mark
or something) to be outputted. Thanks to Urs for the ScholarLy
annotation system that I now use systematically: (everything seems to
be ready for automated LaTeX reports for every project :-) ). I also
am looking for automated small QR codes that would be generated on the
"fly" and displayed as rehearsal marks to link directly to the right
audio file on the web for practice purposes. All of that is hosted
using linodes services as a central for git repositories, build
machines, public hosting.

Status:
Most of that is in an infinite work-in-progress status but, as long as
I can output charts and conductor scores, every thing is fine for me.

Greetings to you all
(It's my first post on this mailing list)
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Pierre-Luc Gauthier