Re: stepping down as project manager

[Hans Aberg]

On 14 Oct 2012, at 10:51, David Kastrup wrote:

> Hans Aberg <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> On 12 Oct 2012, at 09:01, Graham Percival wrote:
>> 
>>> ...  After I'm finished my phd, I'll do the thing
>>> which every computer science student should do at least once in
>>> their life: I'll make my own language.  I'm not comfortable with
>>> the level of abstractions that lilypond offers.  Just like
>>> different programming languages make it easier (or harder) to
>>> write certain types of programs, a different sheet music language
>>> would make it easier to express the type of music that I write.
>>> I'll write a python script which transforms a text file into a .ly
>>> file.  
>> 
>> One idea is to first Guile style library for Lilypond, and then write
>> a new, more statically typed language on top of that. Have you thought
>> about that?
> 
> It would seem that your first sentence has been written in a new
> language already.  Perhaps you should explain this in English first for
> the sake of bootstrapping this discussion?

Just a Lilypond library with a C/C++ header which allows object to be called 
directly, as in Guile. This then admits writing a language calling this.

Hans