Re: Appreciation / Financial support

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

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.

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Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen