Re: Programming Language

[David Kastrup]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Conor,
>
> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> For extending LilyPond, you need Scheme.  Scheme knowledge is only of
>> limited marketing value but of course the general kind of solving
>> programming tasks from within a fourth generation extension language may
>> still be reasonably relevant.
>
> Scheme is a very good language to know.  It is also reasonably close to
> Clojure, which seems to be quite popular these days.

<http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/>

That kind of popularity is akin to the kid in school that would let you
copy their homework but you'd rather not since it may be formally right
according to some criteria but you'd get busted the moment someone looks
closer or asks a question.

-- 
David Kastrup