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Re: Appreciation / Financial support
From: |
Han-Wen Nienhuys |
Subject: |
Re: Appreciation / Financial support |
Date: |
Wed, 30 May 2012 08:46:39 -0300 |
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:18 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> You can't separate the two. Developers grow from users. Look at the
>>> TeX/LaTeX and Emacs communities: how much of the changes happen in the
>>> binary, how much in the interpretative layers? Where did most
>>> developers get their first experiences and contact?
>>
>> Let me try to rephrase things: the more functionality is moved into
>> the Scheme layers, the less people you can find who are capable of
>> working on it.
>
> Among programmers who never heard of LilyPond and acquired their skills
> independently.
>
> But the target audience of LilyPond is not programmers. It is
> musicians.
>
>> Therefore, you should be careful with moving more and more code into
>> the Scheme layer.
>
> Guess what: I've been programming computers since the seventies, and I
> was a hardcore C++ programmers years before I started on LilyPond. I
> had not worked with Scheme before LilyPond.
guess what: I learned Scheme because of Lilypond too, but you and I
are the exception.
--
Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
- Re: [OT] was "Re: Appreciation / Financial support", (continued)
- Re: [OT] was "Re: Appreciation / Financial support", Kieren MacMillan, 2012/05/31
- Re: [OT] was "Re: Appreciation / Financial support", Phil Holmes, 2012/05/31
- Re: Appreciation / Financial support, Matthew Collett, 2012/05/31
- Re: Appreciation / Financial support, David Kastrup, 2012/05/30
- Re: Appreciation / Financial support, Matthew Collett, 2012/05/31
- Re: Appreciation / Financial support, David Kastrup, 2012/05/31
- 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, 2012/05/30
- Re: Appreciation / Financial support,
Han-Wen Nienhuys <=
Re: Appreciation / Financial support, Janek Warchoł, 2012/05/28
Re: Appreciation / Financial support, Hannes Kuhnert, 2012/05/28
- Re: Appreciation / Financial support, David Kastrup, 2012/05/28
- Re: Appreciation / Financial support, Henning Hraban Ramm, 2012/05/28
- Re: Appreciation / Financial support, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2012/05/29
- Re: Appreciation / Financial support, Henning Hraban Ramm, 2012/05/29
- Re: Appreciation / Financial support, David Kastrup, 2012/05/29
- Re: Appreciation / Financial support, Henning Hraban Ramm, 2012/05/29