Re: Replying to posts

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On 28/04/16 12:43, Chris Yate wrote:
> On 27 April 2016 at 19:25, Anthonys Lists <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> And the reality is, most people HERE, including the most important ones! use 
>> simple, plain-text, email clients.
>> There's a reason why Outlook Lusers are not welcome on most mailing lists, 
>> and that's because the result is incomprehensible, pretty fast!
>>
>> Why is it that you get so many idiots who think that "ooh, shiny" is the 
>> same as "new, improved".
>> Lilypond is not aimed at the "ooh shiny" brigade, so if you want to be part 
>> of that, please go somewhere else ...
> 
> Respectfully, I disagree. Having a shiny AND functional tool (no smut
> here, I'm British) is perfectly possible, and wanting to use one
> doesn't make you a magpie. It's snobbery -- you might say 'inverted'
> snobbery -- to suggest so.
> 
> "Shiny" isn't necessarily "improved" but they're not mutually
> exclusive. Would you suggest Frescobaldi is *not* a big improvement in
> the User Interface for Lilypond development?
> 
Horses for courses - if you like it, great.

But actually, for *my* use case, it probably really IS NOT an
improvement! I've never used it, never tried it, never had any desire
to. Can you use it to enter a score, and then get it to generate all the
individual parts for you?

"Q. What's the main reason for having a window manager?
"A. It means I can have multiple text terminals open simultaneously!"

For some people, like me, that is the way my brain is wired.

Cheers,
Wol