On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 04:27:45PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Op donderdag 09-04-2009 om 22:14 uur [tijdzone +0800], schreef Graham > Percival: > > > Oh, certainly. But I think it would *also* be stupid to create a > > programmer's edit, when vim is already perfect. :P > > True. Let's just keep manually formatting everything. I mean, > people's tastes differ for a reason.
Yeah. It's not like there's any easy-to-learn languages that are ideal for text editing. Imagine having a perl/ directory in the lilypond source code! Oh, the catmanity! > This has the additional advantage that the programmer implementing a > piece of code can leave her signature more easily, by using ever so > slightly indentation variations. Others will then know to stay away > from code sections that they do not 'own', so to say. Oh sweet $DIETY yes. I /hate/ it when people fix bugs in my code. It's like, guys, I'm perfect, duh! Like, I added those "bugs" for a reason! > > By the way, I *always* prefix LilyPond by an animal name when I > > introduce it in my published papers. :) > > Good. Just picking a random animal for now -- until we settle for > zebra -- should work. Why limit it to animals? Venus flytraps are moving, and have a lifecycle. I can see it now: CARBON-BASED LIFEFORM WITH A RELATIVELY SHORT LIFESPAN ON THE COSMIC SCALE/LilyPond. wow. I should make an indie band with that title. If one doesn't already exist. :) > > Nah; Valentin will keep the legend of the Grumpy Developer alive > > in times to come. Long after humanity has colonized distant > > stars, schoolchildren will be reading about the epic flamewars > > involving Achilles, Trojan Horses, and whether or not we should > > move all the CUTTLEFISH/LilyPond documentation into a wiki. > > Brilliant! Let's define the MOOSE/coding standards in an Opera! I'm leaning towards explaining about BLOWFISH/coding in a ballad. Maybe a power ballad, with lots of fifths. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
