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Re: Moving a tempo mark to the right


From: Anthony Youngman
Subject: Re: Moving a tempo mark to the right
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 21:55:07 +0100
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On 01/09/17 21:36, David Kastrup wrote:
I find the same thing with databases. So many people have their minds
stuck in the 2-D relational world, and just cannot grasp the concept
of a multi-dimensional database like Pick. Given that Pick is very
much list-based (unlike SQL which is set-based), why can't I grasp a
list-based language like Scheme? And Pick is very XML-like!
Because Scheme (like all LISP variants) does not even have a programming
language.  It has a clever way to write down parse trees as a
computer-readable data structure, bypassing the step of coding in a
programming language.  That makes it brilliant for structure-preserving
program manipulation and AI.

But Scheme *IS* a language. Although I do understand exactly what you mean - my very first computer was a Jupiter Ace, which used Forth instead of BASIC. So I've been exposed to that sort of thing right from the start, but I never really used it much.

Thanks - I'll look up and understand what it does. The only snag is
that I've got 2.18.2, which doesn't like your code. That's the latest
on SuSE, and my gentoo system (which I daren't upgrade at the moment)
is even older - 2.15.12
2.15.12 is stupid: that's an early version in the unstable 2.15 branch.

If your distribution lets you down, you might try installing a binary
from our download page.

Nothing to do with the distro - as I said I daren't upgrade. Firstly, gentoo has dropped KDE4 which means major UI changes which will give my wife panic attacks (slight exaggeration, but not much). (Plus a big learning curve for me.) And secondly my hardware is not quite trustworthy - gcc crashes a lot which I think is down to the CPU somewhere :-( Dunno why it's only gcc that seems to suffer (remember, the distro is gentoo :-)

Cheers,
Wol



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