Hi Robert,
you may have a look at https://scheme-book.ursliska.de
It is *far* from complete and significantly less authoritative than the
other resources, but it is explicitly written with LilyPond in mind and
with efforts to overcome exactly these understanding obstacles (I wrote
that when my recollection of the struggle was quite fresh).
Best
Urs
Am 27. Mai 2018 11:49:16 MESZ schrieb Robert Schmaus
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Thanks Aaron,
it's rather on-topic I guess. Or rather: I'm afraid.
In your first link, there's a sample chapter of "The Little Schemer"
available. You'd think that they would put something up that's acutally
helpful at getting the idea of Scheme and/or that book. And maybe that
even was their intention! But ... can you make any sense of this?
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS/sample.pdf
I certainly can't.
I guess my problem is: Scheme seems to be a very nice intellectual
exercise. I'm sure it's very elegant and - ultimately - very powerful
(as I can see in the snippet repository) but it's also very unlike
everything that's used normally. But Scheme is near impossible to read
and therefore also to write.
There was a discussion about Scheme vs other languages a couple of years
back. I can't find the start of that thread, but this is part of it:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-06/msg00185.html
From that thread, I take away the comfort that I'm not the only one
with Scheme-problems.
Now, I can live with that - most of the times I don't have to customise
anything anyway. It's just, that with Scheme, I know, I'll never get
into it, too.
Ok, thanks again for the references. I think for now, I simply stay
within the "out of the box" Lilypond limits. I'd have to invest hours of
learning Scheme - that's not an option for the near future, I'm afraid.
Cheers,
Robert
Am 27.05.18 um 07:19 schrieb Aaron Hill:
On 2018-05-26 06:15, Robert Schmaus wrote:
so far, I was completely satisfied with out-of-the box
lilypond and
rarely used anything involving scheme. Mainly because, I
find this
language very counter-intuitive, but that's maybe because I
code in
C-like languages all the time.
Hi Robert,
This is probably a little off-topic, but you might want to look at
picking up a copy of "The Little Schemer" [1]. It's based on the
earlier work, "The Little LISPer", which takes a very novel
approach to
teaching a programming language. Another learning resource is
"How To
Design Programs" [2] along with Dr. Racket [3]. (Racket is the
current
name and release of PLT Scheme.)
[1]: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS/
[2]: http://www.htdp.org/
[3]: http://download.racket-lang.org/
-- Aaron Hill
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