Thomas Morley <thomasmorle...@googlemail.com> writes: > So what to do? > Ask someone? Learn more? > I choosed the second and decided to learn scheme (currently still > improving it). > Nowadays I'm able to write nearly all scheme-stuff I need, to answer > numerous questions on the user-list, reporting bugs and work-arounds > for them, etc. > I set up LilyDev and recently submitted my first patch, struggling > with the new world of developer-tools.
And doing a really impressive job with that. > Perhaps some day I'll decide to learn C++ Maybe you should work together with Mike. He does everything in C++ even when Scheme would be the better choice. > Reading this discussion so far, I sometimes feel not encouraged to > continue my way of “learning more“. Then the message has not been clear. As a developer, the best I can offer is to be open and responsive. It does not make sense for me to promise to be obedient. I won't code against my conscience, and I expect every other coder to do the same. I don't want _anybody_ putting code into LilyPond that he considers to be a bad idea to start with. We have enough of a code quality problem without people actively submitting code they don't consider the right thing. > Well, of course there is sometimes an antagonism between the interests > of users and developers. But I think the main points of a > music-typesetting program are: > (1)Deliver the most beautyful output as possible. > (2)Offer the most simple or at least consequent syntax as possible for > the user. In the end a musician will be the user, at least of the > printed score. > > So I'm with Graham: > > 2012/9/3 Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca>: >> I do not think that musicians have nothing valuable >> to say. I *especially* do not agree that documentation writers or >> teachers (in person) have nothing valuable to say. I'd wish our documentation writers had a lot _more_ to say... -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
