Re: Roadmap to lily code

[darius]

I would have never thought that this mailing list, of all places,
would host yet another language war !

Quoting Nicolas Sceaux <address@hidden>:

> > that Python would have enabled far more people to hack with
> > the internals., as the procedural-OO paradigm is more popular than
> > functional programming. 
> 
> Is Scheme really preventing users from hacking LilyPond's internals? 

I sure believe it does. Scheme is ok, but too remote to many people's
culture. My perception has always been that the first few hurdles
were just to high for comfort, and that people who might have been
tempted to do things just did not because getting their first piece
of Scheme to work took ages. This was so frustrating (to me, at least) 
that in due time I suggested we'd organize some kind of workshop to address
this first few hurdles issue.

I don't even try to suggest that Python (or Perl, or whatever...) 
is better in abstract or purely scientific terms. As a matter
of fact, I'm no big Python fan myself. However, evidence seems
to show that extensible systems based on Python, Lua, or Tcl are more
often and proficiently extended than systems based on Scheme - Lilypond 
being a fair example of this.
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Well, as in most language issues, I don't expect to change anyone's mind
anyway :-)

Darius.