Matthew Collett <m_coll...@ihug.co.nz> writes: > On 30/05/2012, at 9:10 pm, David Kastrup wrote: > >> Lua with "separate statements with >> semicolon or newline or space, I don't care" is nicer, but it is >> procedural, not functional, > > And right there is an excellent reason to prefer it to Scheme. There > are some people who really like functional programming, but for most > people functional programming is arcane and confusing, and procedural > far more natural. To tempt ordinary users to dip their toe into > scripting, a procedural language is the way to go.
Having to cut an argument off in mid-sentence for being able to counter it does not exactly overwhelm. #1 is a shallower dip than #{ return 1 #}. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user