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Re: Appreciation / Financial support
From: |
Nils |
Subject: |
Re: Appreciation / Financial support |
Date: |
Tue, 29 May 2012 19:44:38 +0200 |
On Tue, 29 May 2012 19:08:51 +0200
Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 6:04 PM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> writes:
> >> While the scheme integration have been a big leap forward in terms of
> >> expandability and flexibility, I think it has also been our gravest
> >> design error. Both for technical reasons (GUILE is a poor
> >> implementation), but also for practical reasons: writing scheme is
> >> hard for the general public, and it has surely decreased the amount of
> >> developer participation we've had.
>
> Interesting. If you were deciding now, what language would you use?
>
> And is it at all conceivable to change this now?
>
> cheers,
> Janek
My 2 cents:
If it is really a core extension: Python. For everything that does not need
performance my language of choice. Development in such a high level language
really speeds things up.
Since Lilypond does not need performance in any step, if starting from zero, I
would write Lilypond completely in Python.
If it is for easy user scripting: Lua. Flexible, easy to learn, especially
designed for that purpose.
Both have in common that there is a big user base, these are tested and
approved from the tiniest (shell scripts) to the biggest/most complex (AAA
Games) applications.
Nils
- Re: Appreciation / Financial support, (continued)
- Re: Appreciation / Financial support, David Kastrup, 2012/05/28
- Re: Appreciation / Financial support, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2012/05/29
- Re: Appreciation / Financial support, David Kastrup, 2012/05/29
- Re: Appreciation / Financial support, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2012/05/29
- Re: Appreciation / Financial support, David Kastrup, 2012/05/29
- Re: Appreciation / Financial support, Janek Warchoł, 2012/05/29
- Re: Appreciation / Financial support,
Nils <=
- Re: Appreciation / Financial support, David Kastrup, 2012/05/29
- Re: Appreciation / Financial support, Henning Hraban Ramm, 2012/05/29
- Re: Appreciation / Financial support, Marc Hohl, 2012/05/30
- Re: Appreciation / Financial support, Henning Hraban Ramm, 2012/05/30
- Re: Appreciation / Financial support, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2012/05/29
- Re: Appreciation / Financial support, David Kastrup, 2012/05/30
- Re: Appreciation / Financial support, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2012/05/31
- Re: Appreciation / Financial support, David Kastrup, 2012/05/31
- Re: Appreciation / Financial support, address@hidden, 2012/05/30
- Re: Appreciation / Financial support, David Kastrup, 2012/05/30