Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

[Alexander Kobel]

On 2015-09-12 02:17, Tim Reeves wrote:
>  > Am 11.09.2015 um 20:17 schrieb David Bellows:
>  > > Urs, I'd still like to see a poll or at least all the answers
>  > > collected and analyzed etc.
>  >
>  > I didn't intend to drop that poll idea.
>  > But I find this thread very interesting and also touching, and it should
>  > not be just buried in the mailing list archive. We should let it fade
>  > out and then see if we can give it a decent place somewhere.
>  >
>  > Urs
>
>
> So far, in the small, non-random sample we have, it looks like the
> average user's age is somewhere around 60. I guess you can teach old
> dogs new tricks! ;)

Well, another interpretation is that to be able to spend the amount of 
time required for using LilyPond, you need to be either retired or (by 
profession) really desperately in need for its specific feature set...

Here: 31 to lower the average. Computer science grad student from 
Saarbrücken, Germany, working on the borderline between mathematics 
(computer algebra and numerics) and computational geometry.

I used to lead a church choir for seven years, and still sing in choirs 
and ensembles. Lily was my reliable tool of choice for quick-and-undirty 
engravings of (mostly) chorales last minute before the rehearsal. I'm in 
a long-standing love-and-hate relationship with LaTeX and solely use 
Linux since more than a decade. Guess that helped to dampen the learning 
curve. I never had trouble to produce perfectly usable scores for my 
needs, but that's almost exclusively "simple" vocal scores.
Only occasionally, perfectionism hits me for a while and I try to push 
Lily's and my abilities - typically, until life complains and steals 
back its time. Unfortunately, that means that there are some unfinished 
pieces (both of Lily code and musical pieces) lying around and waiting 
for my retirement... ;-)


Cheers,
Alexander