On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:18 AM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: >>> You can't separate the two. Developers grow from users. Look at the >>> TeX/LaTeX and Emacs communities: how much of the changes happen in the >>> binary, how much in the interpretative layers? Where did most >>> developers get their first experiences and contact? >> >> Let me try to rephrase things: the more functionality is moved into >> the Scheme layers, the less people you can find who are capable of >> working on it. > > Among programmers who never heard of LilyPond and acquired their skills > independently. > > But the target audience of LilyPond is not programmers. It is > musicians. > >> Therefore, you should be careful with moving more and more code into >> the Scheme layer. > > Guess what: I've been programming computers since the seventies, and I > was a hardcore C++ programmers years before I started on LilyPond. I > had not worked with Scheme before LilyPond.
guess what: I learned Scheme because of Lilypond too, but you and I are the exception. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - han...@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
