Re: Roadmap to lily code

[Sven Axelsson]

On 07/12/05, Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:
> Darius Blasband wrote:
> > Interesting question though: if you had to do it again, would you still
> > consider Scheme, or would you rather go for Python....
> >
>
> Yes, that's an intriguing question.  I'm not sure, really. The # hack
> could also have been done in Python, by requiring parentheses, I guess.
> I do wonder how what the impact on performance would have been. Python
> objects are more heavyweight than SCMs, and the Garbage Collection
> opened a lot of possibilities in developing Lily.

I guess that the Python syntax (the indentation rules) would have made
it a bit messy. Since we're speculating anyways; perhaps an embedded
C++ interpreter would have given hacking opportunities to the most
people. Here is such a beast:
http://www.softintegration.com/products/sdk/embedch/

It is not GPL though,so I guess that would have been a problem for Lilypond.
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Sven Axelsson