Re: Discuss signature for new function \annotate (new version)

[Tim Slattery]

Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:

>After all, I'm still wondering what benefits Scheme offers.
>I find it extremely reluctant to be understood (that's what it feels: 
>Scheme tries to avoid being understood), and I would like to have some 
>benefits that outweigh that effort. And so far I can't see them.

The 'advantage" is that it seems to be the "official" scripting
language for FSF apps, see http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/. As for
why FSF chose a LISP variant for this ... I can't imagine. Nearly
every programmer understands procedural languages, like C, Java,
Javascript, Perl, Ruby, etc, etc. Very few (IMHO) understand LISP. 

Whatever language was chosen, you'd have to learn a good deal about
Lilypond's internal structures to use it (those are quite well
documented, by the way). Using a LISP variant just adds another layer
of obscurity on top of that.

I am overwhelmingly impressed by Lilypond, and blown away by its
extensive scriptability. I just wish I could script it in a language I
know something about.

-- 
Tim Slattery
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