Conor Cook <conor.p.c...@gmail.com> writes: > Dear Lilypond Developers, > > I am embarking on a quest to learn computer programming (or IT help > desk/network administration – suggestions on best choice for career, > knowing there are lots of variables?). At this point I am learning > programming best practices and general knowledge, but I will need to > begin diving deeper into a language at some point. Do you have a > suggestion for a language to start with? Is there a language that > would be applicable enough to a general computer systems career but > with an eye towards also applying to Lilypond’s development, too?
Python is used for scripts like lilypond-book and convert-ly. It's probably a reasonably useful language and/or career skill. For extending LilyPond, you need Scheme. Scheme knowledge is only of limited marketing value but of course the general kind of solving programming tasks from within a fourth generation extension language may still be reasonably relevant. C++ is a good career move, but the C++ in LilyPond's code base is of rather mixed quality and of rather mixed age: the early parts had to rely on the features available in early language standards. So C++ skills acquired while working with LilyPond may be only moderately representative for the language as such. Basically, there is a lot of programming in LilyPond. What you decide to get your feet wet on probably is best determined by what you want to end up actually doing in/with LilyPond. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
