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Re: Scheme syntax vs. other languages
From: |
Jonathan Wilkes |
Subject: |
Re: Scheme syntax vs. other languages |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:36:52 -0700 (PDT) |
----- Original Message -----
> From: Graham Percival <address@hidden>
> To: Jonathan Wilkes <address@hidden>
> Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 2:09 PM
> Subject: Re: Scheme syntax vs. other languages
>
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:49:28AM -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>> > From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
>> >
>> > The important border
>> > is that between LilyPond and Scheme. Here is where empowerment of the
>> > user happens. Or not.
>>
>> Can you explain a little about how that empowerment happens?
>
> Users can change the behaviour of lilypond without recompiling.
> That is useful because 99% of users do not have a development
> system set up. Lilypond "ships" with a scheme interpreter.
So you're talking about users being able to plug in solution given
to them by a developer directly in an .ly file, right?
>
> Now can you two please take this discussion to private mail?
Nope.
> I don't think it's going anywhere.
Then do something you find more productive during the time you
would have been reading this thread.
-Jonathan
>
> - Graham
>