Hey David, I saw this about work you've done on the emacs Lilypond
mode. Is the new code base available anywhere and is it usable?
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 7:37 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
>
> Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse
> oculis meis vidi in ampulle pendere, et cum
> illi pueri di
Am 21.09.2015 um 12:13 schrieb bart deruyter:
> My turn :-)
>
Very interesting thoughts, thank you!
Urs
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My turn :-)
I'm 40, started using lilypond a couple of years ago, I think in 2012, not
sure actually.
I play guitar as first instrument and teach it in non-traditional schools,
mainly because I don't have the qualifications on paper and now it's too
late/expensive/time_consuming to get one.
I us
Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse
oculis meis vidi in ampulle pendere, et cum
illi pueri dicerent: Σίβυλλα τί θέλεις;
respondebat illa: άποθανεΐν θέλω.
[I saw myself with my own eyes the Cumaean Sibyl hanging in a bottle,
and when the boys said to her "Sibyl, what's your desire?"
Here I come, 50's :)
Instruments: keyboards and acoustic guitar.
Started using Lilypond in combination with Sublime Text 2 in 2013 to typeset
my own music, after getting frustrated with Sibelius. I have learned about
Lilypond through Steinberg's blog on their new notation software.
Currently con
Hello Jean-Luc,
> Le 16 sept. 2015 à 06:24, Jean-Luc Chevillard
> a écrit :
>
> I have never used Frescobaldi (I am not sure what it is, but I see it
> mentionned frequently on the list) and write my .ly files using a text editor
> (I currently use NotePad+)
Frescobaldi is an integrated deve
Greetings (from Pondicherry, India)
Age: 59
My first degree was in Mathematics, and then I migrated to Linguistics
(or rather to the History of Linguistics, which I see as part of the
"History of Science").
This is the domain where I did my Ph.D (in the eighties).
I am a researcher (at CNRS
Age: 44
Occupation: I teach arts and technology at New College, The University of
Alabama.
Music: I’m a composer and performer. Most of my compositions use live
electronics in some way, usually via Cycling ‘74 Max. These works often have
little or no traditionally notated material for the perf
>
> On 2015-08-26 22:10, Urs Liska wrote:
>
>> This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users
>>> >and
>>> >developers?
>>>
>> Remind me in two weeks and I'll start a poll on Scores of Beauty
>
>
Greetings -
Age: 67
Occupation: Retired. I worked for many years (~25) in wood
I am 54 years old and work as software developer. Playing harp is my
hobby. I perform solo, in ensemble and in orchestras.
I used NoteWorthy Composer for a few years, tried MusixTex for a short
period of time and use Lilypond since many years. In most cases I
typeset music for harp, harp ensemble,
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On 14/09/15 22:01, Wols Lists wrote:
> On 14/09/15 21:42, Tim Reeves wrote:
>> Well, as a hornist, I reckon my instrument of choice is a lot
>> closer to a "vague pointing instrument" than to a keyboard
>> instrument! Sometimes when I point it this way
On 14/09/15 21:42, Tim Reeves wrote:
> Well, as a hornist, I reckon my instrument of choice is a lot closer to
> a "vague pointing instrument" than to a keyboard instrument! Sometimes
> when I point it this way it goes the other way. In reality, it depends
> more on my lips etc. than on my fingers,
en playing
normally. I am not average, I confess.
:)
Tim Reeves
David Kastrup wrote on 09/14/2015 02:23:15 AM:
> From: David Kastrup
> To: Alexander Kobel
> Cc: Tim Reeves , lilypond-user@gnu.org
> Date: 09/14/2015 02:26 AM
> Subject: Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages
>
Forgot to say I use Frescobaldi.
-Paul
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I’m in my early 40s, and started using LilyPond in early 2011. I love
LilyPond’s flexibility and extensibility which lets me create sheet music in
alternative notation systems that have a “chromatic staff” – especially
“Clairnote”[1]. LilyPond is in a league of its own for this kind of extensi
45 years old
Day job: Chemist (like Borodin!)
Started with computers in the days of the VIC-20. Went through several BASIC
interpreter computers. Work with both Windows (work) and Mac (home) now. Work
use includes some programming in high level BASIC-like languages, and some
rudimentary SQ
Alexander Kobel writes:
> On 2015-09-12 02:17, Tim Reeves wrote:
>> > Am 11.09.2015 um 20:17 schrieb David Bellows:
>> > > Urs, I'd still like to see a poll or at least all the answers
>> > > collected and analyzed etc.
>> >
>> > I didn't intend to drop that poll idea.
>> > But I find this
Leszek Wroński writes:
> I have recently discovered Frescobaldi and I have to say that for big
> scores its "click at the score to put the source editor in the correct
> place" functionality is very efficient.
Well, this should work with a number of editors and previewers if you
read the instruc
On 2015-09-12 02:17, Tim Reeves wrote:
> Am 11.09.2015 um 20:17 schrieb David Bellows:
> > Urs, I'd still like to see a poll or at least all the answers
> > collected and analyzed etc.
>
> I didn't intend to drop that poll idea.
> But I find this thread very interesting and also touching, a
> Working with those commercial tools is discouraging to me, too much mouse
> fine-tuning of details!
I had actually started with Finale 3.0 long ago, and… finally gave it, licence
and all, to a friend who was studying music.
There were about 45 tools in the palettes at the time to perform the v
On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Flaming Hakama by Elaine <
ela...@flaminghakama.com> wrote:
>
> Started composing in high school in the 1890s,
>
>
Really? Wow! (1980s?)
Ralph
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USA
palmer.r.vio...@gmail.com
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44 years old
Day job: web development, mostly JavaScript these days, but I've used quite
a number of others over the years (including APL).
Started composing in high school in the 1890s, primarily Jazz and chamber
music, with some larger works. I've been using Lilypond to produce scores
for play
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Edward Ardzinski writes:
> Lilypond's set up immediately hooked me, I really have never used any
> other manuscript programs, so my perspective is probably pretty
> limited. And unique - as a programmer I created my own text
> editor...now that the source code is on a very old computer, I'm kind
cts I employ.
Mainly I create midi files for a 3 part "power trio" - a treble part, a bass
part, and a 2 stave drum kit. From there I use AcidPRO to create mp3's
files to hear, in a general way, the way the music sounds.
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View this message in context:
http://lilypond.106
While we are at it
Age 73 - Married - North of England
previous life Senior Scientific Oficer - Heat Transfer
Mechanical Engineering Degree
Struggling clarinet player and general music lover
Started producing music scores using NoteWorthy Composer
Graduated to LilyPond some years ago - still ve
Briefly- Age: 75, using LilyPond since 2003, many Mutopia submissions which
others have updated. Most challenging project (2003-2004): Joseph Archer's
parlor piano transcription of his "Alice, Where Art Thou?." Mutopia was my
example and teacher back then. I'm a retired physics teacher, frustrat
63 years old, recently retired computer scientist, and an amateur double reed
player after playing the double bass for some time.
Started with LP 2.12, across which I came looking for a LaTeX complement for
producing scores.
After using TextMate on Mac OS X I switched to Frescobaldi some time a
PMA wrote:
PMA wrote:
Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users
and developers?
My average age is 75.
Better answer -- My age is 75. I've been using Lilypond for ca 5 years,
without an editor (other than VI), and entirely for original
comp
> > Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
> >> This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users
> >> and developers?
47! I've used LilyPond from the very first versions back in 1996. Actually,
I first used the MPP (MusiXTeX PreProcessor) by Han-Wen and Jan and then
started to test LilyPon
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59 year old system manager with a background in system programming,
down to assembly language. Generally I dislike GUIs, so vi + Lily is
"sweet music to my ears", though I do admit to Frescobaldi on
occasions. I use it for a little composing, more ar
I'm 19 years old and a student of Music at the University of Birmingham.
I started to dabble in Lilypond a few years ago when it piqued my interest.
Nowadays I use it for engraving composition work and musical examples for
essays and other written work. I find Lilypond really useful because I can
>>> This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users
I'm ~30 years age.
Background:
At first using Music Sculptor(for about two years), then Note
Worthy(For about 2 years), then Finale(for about 6 years) and then a
rather abrupt transition(not being a programmer at all) to th
PMA wrote:
Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users
and developers?
My average age is 75.
Better answer -- My age is 75. I've been using Lilypond for ca 5 years,
without an editor (other than VI), and entirely for original
compositions.
My
I'm 57. Full-time orchestra musician (bass trombone). I've been using
LilyPond for at least 12 years, maybe longer. First heard of it when there was
an announcement on the MusiXTeX list that version 0.0.1(?) was released having
grown from being a pre-processor to MusiXTeX. It still required
On 12/09/15 13:24, David Kastrup wrote:
> Depends on the composer's date of death and whether you are transcribing
> editorial annotations as well or just sticking to the Urtext. "we were
> given photocopy music sheet" does not exactly sound a lot more legal
> either, though I have indeed (from Ho
I guess I had better join in this "off"-topic.
I use Lilypond and Emacs on Ubuntu 12.04. I previously use Score for
the flute-and-harp arrangements that my former partner and I used to
publish. I found learning to use Lilypond effectively much harder to
than Score was.
It's always much easier t
MING TSANG writes:
> I'm 68 years old and an IBM mainframe programmer using COBOL. Now retired.
> I've been using Lilypond since v1.12. One of the reason I choose
> lilypond because it supports UTF-8 for lyrics. Now I am gladly using
> V2.18.2 and V2.19.26.
> I sing in a choir. Time and time, we
I'm 68 years old and an IBM mainframe programmer using COBOL. Now retired.
I've been using Lilypond since v1.12. One of the reason I choose lilypond
because it supports UTF-8 for lyrics. Now I am gladly using V2.18.2 and
V2.19.26.
I sing in a choir. Time and time, we were given photocopy music s
I assume this was intended for the list.
Ursprüngliche Nachricht
Von: Martin Tarenskeen
Gesendet: 11. September 2015 23:09:32 MESZ
An: Urs Liska
Betreff: Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages
> But I find this thread very interesting and also touching, and it should
&g
I’m 60 and I program for a living.
I have been using lilypond almost from the time it first came out.
I mainly use it for typesetting medieval and renaissance music,
sometimes from original notation or for re-typsetting poorly
typeset editions.
I have contributed some minor enhancements and bug f
I'm a 48 year old school teacher (Mathematics and Computing).
I'm also the pianist in a jazz ensemble, which is what keeps me using
Lilypond - re-scoring pieces for which we have mainly hand-written
scores (some of them atrociously scribbled down).
I used to mainly use jEdit/LilyPondTool, but
On 2015-09-11 06:17 PM, Tim Reeves wrote:
So far, in the small, non-random sample we have, it looks like the
average user's age is somewhere around 60. I guess you can teach old
dogs new tricks! ;)
It has been said that the way to avoid becoming an old dog is to keep
learning new tricks
I am 84. Wrote my first programme in 1965. Didn't keep it up because
I wasn't fast enough to earn money at it.
Did some Pascal programming later. Interesting utilities, now all out
of date.
Started using Lilypond and Frescobaldi about nine months ago on ubuntu.
I make music sheets for
So far, in the small, non-random sample we have, it looks like the
average user's age is somewhere around 60. I guess you can teach old
dogs new tricks! ;)
OK, I'm 77. I use Lilypond only to engrave fiddle tunes for my own use.
Be well,
Jonathan
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> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 22:22:45 +0200
> From: Urs Liska
> To: lilypond-user@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages
> Message-ID: <55f33815.40...@openlilylib.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
>
>
>
&g
I’m a 68 year-old retired GP.
I took up guitar aged 15, playing folk and rock stuff by ear, although I had
learned piano long enough in primary school to know what a staff looked like,
and I played in folk clubs and bands until medicine took over.
After a long career break(!), I took up guitar
Am 11.09.2015 um 20:17 schrieb David Bellows:
> Urs, I'd still like to see a poll or at least all the answers
> collected and analyzed etc.
I didn't intend to drop that poll idea.
But I find this thread very interesting and also touching, and it should
not be just buried in the mailing list arch
I'm 72.
I started using Lilypond because it's free,
and easy to use for a quick-and-dirty job.
I've continued to use it for its ability to set
Renaissance music: scholarly
appendages to notes, incipits, Petrucci
style breves and longs, indefinite length
terminal longs...
It's a lot better than w
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 08:12:41PM +0200, Jean-Charles Malahieude wrote:
> Le 10/09/2015 15:00, Peter Bjuhr a écrit :
> >
> >
> >On 2015-08-26 22:10, Urs Liska wrote:
> >>>This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users
> >>>and developers?
> >>Remind me in two weeks and I'll
Urs, I'd still like to see a poll or at least all the answers
collected and analyzed etc.
Me:
46-year-old composer.
I use Lilypond for all my scores. I've used off and on for 10 years(?)
but every day for the past 3 years. I started using it because it was
free, produced excellent scores, and ha
Le 10/09/2015 15:00, Peter Bjuhr a écrit :
On 2015-08-26 22:10, Urs Liska wrote:
This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users
and developers?
Remind me in two weeks and I'll start a poll on Scores of Beauty ...
I send in this reminder not because I'm especially inte
Seems I have to chime in instead of preparing a merely statistical poll ...
42, pianist, musicologist (with half a decade's worth intermezzo of
electronic music. Unfortunately that was just before my
Lilypond/programming time, I already had some ideas to try generating
LilyPond input from PureData
41, organist, composer frequently for the church, sometimes
commissioned works for special occasions and sometimes for self
amusement. I use LilyPond to set the above, and sometimes to typeset
stuff that has survived the ravages of time poorly causing the desire
to have a cleaner score to work fro
PMA wrote Thursday, September 10, 2015 7:21 PM
> PMA wrote:
>> Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
>>> This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users
>>> and developers?
>
> Better answer -- My age is 75.
At 74 I thought I might be the oldest user/developer, but it seems I'm not.
I
On 10/09/15 19:59, Tim Reeves wrote:
> Age: 49
> Amateur hornist.
> Typesetting of existing parts, occasionally creating simple exercises,
> fingering charts, etc. Not a regular user, but like to keep up on
> development.
> I use Frescobaldi every time for some time now, and I've been using LP
> fo
Hi,
I’m now 42, singer/songwriter and collector of German and international folk
music. Former scout and LARP bard. Otherwise media designer and programmer.
I’m using LilyPond on OSX since summer 2005, previously with different editors
(Smultron, TextWrangler, Eclipse), since maybe two years exc
[...]
> > On Sep 10, 2015, at 7:00 AM, Peter Bjuhr wrote:
> >
> > On 2015-08-26 22:10, Urs Liska wrote:
> >>> This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond
> >>> users and developers?
> >> Remind me in two weeks and I'll start a poll on Scores of Beauty ...
> >
> > I send in th
I'm still a LilyPond newbie...
As a retired Bell Labs engineer, I can honestly say that I have found LilyPond
to be harder than learning vi, troff/nroff, and shell scripts. (Maybe it's
age, maybe it's having been out of the field for 7+ years, or maybe it's just
that I was never an actual prog
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Kieren MacMillan
wrote:
> Hi Nathan,
>
>> Most music I work with now is not conventionally notated,
>> so I haven't found much use for LilyPond recently.
>
> What kinds of things do you do?
> How *is* it notated?
>
> You may be the perfect [kind of] person to help
Hi Nathan,
> Most music I work with now is not conventionally notated,
> so I haven't found much use for LilyPond recently.
What kinds of things do you do?
How *is* it notated?
You may be the perfect [kind of] person to help make her the best notation
application ever. =)
Cheers,
Kieren.
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Tim Reeves wrote:
> Age: 49
> Amateur hornist.
> Typesetting of existing parts, occasionally creating simple exercises,
> fingering charts, etc. Not a regular user, but like to keep up on
> development.
> I use Frescobaldi every time for some time now, and I've be
ssage: 1
> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 19:26:24 +0200
> From: Simon Albrecht
> To: Peter Bjuhr , lilypond-user@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages
> Message-ID: <55f1bd40.3020...@mail.de>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
>
PMA wrote:
PMA wrote:
Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users
and developers?
My average age is 75.
Better answer -- My age is 75. I've been using Lilypond for ca 5 years,
without an editor (other than VI), and entirely for original comp
PMA wrote:
Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users
and developers?
My average age is 75.
Better answer -- My age is 75. I've been using Lilypond for ca 5 years,
without an editor (other than VI), and entirely for original compositions.
M
Am 10.09.2015 um 15:00 schrieb Peter Bjuhr:
On 2015-08-26 22:10, Urs Liska wrote:
This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users
>and
>developers?
Remind me in two weeks and I'll start a poll on Scores of Beauty ...
I send in this reminder not because I'm especially i
On 2015-09-10 15:57, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
Just in case this doesn’t make it to the poll stage…
>>>This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users and
developers?
>>Remind me in two weeks and I'll start a poll on Scores of Beauty ...
>I send in this reminder not bec
Hello all,
Just in case this doesn’t make it to the poll stage…
>>> This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users and
>>> developers?
>> Remind me in two weeks and I'll start a poll on Scores of Beauty ...
> I send in this reminder not because I'm especially interested in
On 2015-08-26 22:10, Urs Liska wrote:
This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users
>and
>developers?
Remind me in two weeks and I'll start a poll on Scores of Beauty ...
I send in this reminder not because I'm especially interested in ages,
but it would be interesti
Am 26. August 2015 15:38:17 MESZ, schrieb Martin Tarenskeen
:
>
>
>On Wed, 26 Aug 2015, David Kastrup wrote:
>
In the APL course I took years ago, the teacher said: « Exercice
>for the
>
>>> I recall that crucial to APL was its interactive environment. We had
>
>> Still have a COMPASS manua
- Original Message -
From: "David Kastrup"
To: "Andrew Bernard"
Cc: "LilyPond User Group"
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages
Andrew Bernard writes:
imj-muz...@bluewin.ch> wrote:
1€ quest
"Mark Stephen Mrotek" writes:
> lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org wrote:
>> Of David Kastrup
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 8:24 AM
>> To: Andrew Bernard
>> Cc: LilyPond User Group
>> Subject: Re: OT: Beauty of program
-Original Message-
From: lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org
[mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr@gnu.org] On Behalf Of David
Kastrup
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 8:24 AM
To: Andrew Bernard
Cc: LilyPond User Group
Subject: Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages
Andrew Bernard writes:
> imj-muz...@bluewin.ch> wrote:
>>
>>>1€ question for the young : whom does EWD stand for, and did he bring
>>> to computer science?
>
> Writing by hand with a fountain pen. Look it up folks!
Seriously? My dad did all of his Theoretical Physics stuff including
the script
So I owe you 1€: what is you IBAN?
JM
> Le 26 août 2015 à 15:50, Martin Tarenskeen a écrit :
>
>
>
> On Wed, 26 Aug 2015, Andrew Bernard wrote:
>
>> Writing by hand with a fountain pen. Look it up folks!
>
> I looked it up:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra
>
>>> 1€ que
On Wed, 26 Aug 2015, Andrew Bernard wrote:
Writing by hand with a fountain pen. Look it up folks!
I looked it up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra
1€ question for the young : whom does EWD stand for, and did he bring to
computer science?
--
MT__
On Wed, 26 Aug 2015, David Kastrup wrote:
In the APL course I took years ago, the teacher said: « Exercice for the
I recall that crucial to APL was its interactive environment. We had
Still have a COMPASS manual around. Put it up to Ebay at minimum
starting price, but no takers.
:-)
Writing by hand with a fountain pen. Look it up folks!
Andrew
On 26/08/2015 23:30, "Jacques Menu"
wrote:
>1€ question for the young : whom does EWD stand for, and did he bring to
>computer science?
>
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On 26/08/2015 23:30, "Jacques Menu"
wrote:
>1€ question for the young : whom does EWD stand for, and did he bring to
>computer science?
>
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Jacques Menu writes:
> 1€ question for the young : whom does EWD stand for, and did he bring
> to computer science?
5 forks.
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1€ question for the young : whom does EWD stand for, and did he bring to
computer science?
JM
> Le 26 août 2015 à 13:12, David Kastrup a écrit :
>
> Johan Vromans writes:
>
>> On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:41:54 +0200
>> Jacques Menu wrote:
>>
>>> In the APL course I took years ago, the teacher s
Johan Vromans writes:
> On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:41:54 +0200
> Jacques Menu wrote:
>
>> In the APL course I took years ago, the teacher said: « Exercice for the
>> next two weeks : find out what this sample program (25 symbols
>> altogether) does. A guy says two weeks later: « It does this and tha
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:41:54 +0200
Jacques Menu wrote:
> In the APL course I took years ago, the teacher said: « Exercice for the
> next two weeks : find out what this sample program (25 symbols
> altogether) does. A guy says two weeks later: « It does this and that…
> but it took me two and a ha
> In a review on languages in the Communications of the ACM a long
> time ago, each language was described by a caption and a short
> paragraph. Sample captions:
>
> APL : I can read hieroglyphs too.
> Prolog : If Prolog is the answer, then what was the question?
LOL! Can you give a
Hello Michæl,
In the APL course I took years ago, the teacher said: « Exercice for the next
two weeks : find out what this sample program (25 symbols altogether) does.
A guy says two weeks later: « It does this and that… but it took me two and a
half hours to find out! »
And teacher answers: « W
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 15:29:56 +1000
Andrew Bernard wrote:
> quicksort=: (($:@(<#[), (=#[), $:@(>#[)) ({~ ?@#)) ^: (1<#)
It's hard to believe that people only complained about Perl being line
noise...
-- Johan
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Before we all get booted off for being OT, here’s quicksort in J, using a
concept called tacit programming:
quicksort=: (($:@(<#[), (=#[), $:@(>#[)) ({~ ?@#)) ^: (1<#)
Truly beautiful, in all seriousness. This is not a joke! :-)
Andrew
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Very amusing!
But what about B, C, D, E, F, G, K (an APL derivative), L (several), R, S, T (a
Scheme dialect) to name a few?
Seriously now, APL had special keyboards with the symbols which were wondrous
to behold. And indeed, J was constructed in recognition of the divine
impracticality of it:
PMA writes:
> Michael Gerdau wrote:
>> Anybody remembering APL ?
>
> APL was my main lang. for decades,
> as is now its superset/descendant, J.
It is fitting that the language name is now a single character. I am
just surprised that it is one in the ASCII character set.
--
David Kastrup
Michael Gerdau wrote:
Anybody remembering APL ?
APL was my main lang. for decades,
as is now its superset/descendant, J.
I've got weary trying to tell anybody
why. But the curious might take a
peek at
http://www.jsoftware.com/
Pete
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Greetings Michael,
I used to use APL! Truly wonderful.
As to beauty, while subjective, amongst mathematicians at least there is a
shared sense of the beautiful, and not purely personal taste. Scheme has the
elegance mathematicians and computer scientists perceive. Nobody could say
Python is _b
> While guile is aimed at being an extension language, don't forget that
> Scheme was taught at MIT for many, many years as the finest language to
> give students a deep insight into computing and computer science (refer
> SICP). [Sadly, they now teach Python instead. Real world practicality
> defe
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