Mon, 22 Mar 2004 21:00:01 +0100, Matthias a dit : > On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 08:37:24PM +0100, Nicolas Sceaux wrote: >> I'm not sure that there will be pletor of volonteers for recoding >> thousands of C++ LOC in whatever other language.
> You just have to write a C++2scm translator ;-) >> hmmm, thinking of it... I volonteer for LilyPond in Common Lisp!!! >> cliclypond is so easier to pronounce. > I'd prefer RubyPond :-) > To be serious: the current implementation is o.k., and, IIRC, Han-Wen > mentioned in the interview at linuxmusician.com that the C++ part is > planned to shrink away. > I also thought a lot of wether using scheme/guile as semi-backend is the > best choice. It's a matter of taste and readability. Personally, I don't > like scheme very much; allthough it's small and easy to learn, it's IMHO > difficult to read and looks ugly. Thus, using something like Ruby *may* > be an alternative, possibly attracting more volunteers, possibly not. > Anyways. Wether you like/disklike C++, Scheme, Ruby, Python, Haskell, > whatever: those who do participate in active LilyPond development should > concentrate on improving LilyPond, not in using endless time by changing > the languages used. At least not until a certain point of stabilization > has been reached. > Ciao, > Kili You're unfair, you have deleted my smiley when quoting me. It was the short way for expressing your last paragraph (sort of). _______________________________________________ Lilypond-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel