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From: | David Rogers |
Subject: | Re: architecture document? |
Date: | Sun, 25 Oct 2020 23:24:49 -0700 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
Tom Sgouros <tomfool@as220.org> writes:
Hello all:I've recently started using Lilypond and so far it's great. I don't think I'm saying anything surprising by observing what seems to be a close family resemblance to TeX. Did it start out as TeX macros anddiverge?I wonder if there is a document out there that might talk about the design choices made in putting Lilypond together that might compareand contrast it with TeX? Lessons learned? Thank you, -Tom
My opinion is a silly one without any facts or evidence: For projects, there might exist a level of difficulty-plus-complexity-plus-diversity-plus-peculiarity beyond which, *in practice*, every successful solution for that project must necessarily be peculiar, difficult, diverse, and complex, and the people who complete it will invariably turn out to be diverse, complex, difficult, and peculiar.
And: For such a project or its solution or its people, every attempt to reduce the overall magnitude of one of those twelve characteristics (e.g. complexity of the project, difficulty of the solution, etc) will also cause unpredictable increases among the other eleven characteristics, unless each of them is correctly anticipated and successfully mitigated. And sometimes despite the mitigation, too.
Or maybe: Extrapolation works better when it’s applied to one graph at a time. :)
-- David R
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