On 14 Oct 2012, at 10:51, David Kastrup wrote: > Hans Aberg <haber...@telia.com> writes: > >> On 12 Oct 2012, at 09:01, Graham Percival wrote: >> >>> ... After I'm finished my phd, I'll do the thing >>> which every computer science student should do at least once in >>> their life: I'll make my own language. I'm not comfortable with >>> the level of abstractions that lilypond offers. Just like >>> different programming languages make it easier (or harder) to >>> write certain types of programs, a different sheet music language >>> would make it easier to express the type of music that I write. >>> I'll write a python script which transforms a text file into a .ly >>> file. >> >> One idea is to first Guile style library for Lilypond, and then write >> a new, more statically typed language on top of that. Have you thought >> about that? > > It would seem that your first sentence has been written in a new > language already. Perhaps you should explain this in English first for > the sake of bootstrapping this discussion?
Just a Lilypond library with a C/C++ header which allows object to be called directly, as in Guile. This then admits writing a language calling this. Hans _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
