"Anthony W. Youngman" <lilyp...@thewolery.demon.co.uk> writes:
> I'm game. My two problems are (1) finding time, and (2) I'll need a > fair bit of hand-holding to start off with, I expect. I'm very much a > procedurally trained programmer (C, Fortran, *decent* BASICs). You'll find that most of the "functional" claim in Scheme (and Lisp) is a lie in practice. It's mostly a different syntax, but the programming style is appallingly similar. C preprocessor programming, for example, is often "I can warp it to look like a function call". In Scheme and its ilk, pretty much everything looks like a function call without warping. And that's almost all. A functional programming style without global variables and states, like ((lambda (f n) (f f n)) (lambda(f n) (if (< n 1) 1 (* n (f f (- n 1))))) 5) is not something you'll find in Lilypond. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
