On Tuesday 06 December 2005 20.49, dax2 wrote: > On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 19:48:34 +0100 > > Erik wrote: > > On Monday 05 December 2005 18.17, Mehmet Okonsar wrote: > > > Hello users and creators of the best music notation program in > > > the world! > > > > > > What can you suggest for learning Scheme? > > > A set of few links for getting from almost 0 up to Lilypond > > > source. Recommended readings textbooks and on-line tutorials.. > > > Thanks > > > > You can check out schemers.org. > > I will not turn this into a discussion about Scheme (we could > maybe find another list) but I think that some words are in place. > I was interested in understanding why a programmer would choose > Scheme (or Lisp) for a programming language and I found only half > answers. You cannot make pointer-mistakes in Scheme, for example. > > I found that my RedHat has a nice scheme-interpreter, University > of Massachusetts at Boston scheme, sounds nice. I tried to find > out how a programmer would read a string and e.g. cut the first > letter (character) and put it into a variable.
This is not a good example of what you use functional languages for. For tasks involving string handling, languages such as Perl, Python or sed are often used. (or, alternatively, a language which is relatively close to assembler, like C, will do if you're very concerned with speed). Scheme can be a good choice if you want to solve algorithmic problems, or if you want to do nice things with functions. I guess Guile was chosen partly because that Scheme implementation existed and integrated well with C++ and with lily's parser. Here's a page which promotes lisp-like languages (it's funny reading, and it also explains some concepts) http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html -- Erik _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
