Re: Several questions concerning scheme-music-function

[Robert Schmaus]

Thanks Aaron,

it's rather on-topic I guess. Or rather: I'm afraid.

In your first link, there's a sample chapter of "The Little Schemer" 
available. You'd think that they would put something up that's acutally 
helpful at getting the idea of Scheme and/or that book. And maybe that 
even was their intention! But ... can you make any sense of this?

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS/sample.pdf

I certainly can't.

I guess my problem is: Scheme seems to be a very nice intellectual 
exercise. I'm sure it's very elegant and - ultimately - very powerful 
(as I can see in the snippet repository) but it's also very unlike 
everything that's used normally. But Scheme is near impossible to read 
and therefore also to write.

There was a discussion about Scheme vs other languages a couple of years 
back. I can't find the start of that thread, but this is part of it:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-06/msg00185.html

From that thread, I take away the comfort that I'm not the only one 
with Scheme-problems.
Now, I can live with that - most of the times I don't have to customise 
anything anyway. It's just, that with Scheme, I know, I'll never get 
into it, too.


Ok, thanks again for the references. I think for now, I simply stay 
within the "out of the box" Lilypond limits. I'd have to invest hours of 
learning Scheme - that's not an option for the near future, I'm afraid.


Cheers,
Robert




Am 27.05.18 um 07:19 schrieb Aaron Hill:
> On 2018-05-26 06:15, Robert Schmaus wrote:
> > so far, I was completely satisfied with out-of-the box lilypond and
> > rarely used anything involving scheme. Mainly because, I find this
> > language very counter-intuitive, but that's maybe because I code in
> > C-like languages all the time.
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> This is probably a little off-topic, but you might want to look at 
> picking up a copy of "The Little Schemer" [1].  It's based on the 
> earlier work, "The Little LISPer", which takes a very novel approach to 
> teaching a programming language.  Another learning resource is "How To 
> Design Programs" [2] along with Dr. Racket [3].  (Racket is the current 
> name and release of PLT Scheme.)
>
> [1]: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS/
> [2]: http://www.htdp.org/
> [3]: http://download.racket-lang.org/
>
> -- Aaron Hill
>
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