2013/7/21 David Kastrup <[email protected]>: > Thomas Morley <[email protected]> writes: > >> 2013/7/21 David Kastrup <[email protected]>: >>> Urs Liska <[email protected]> writes: >>> >>>> Hi Harm, >>>> >>>> I did a quick compilation (further investigation to follow) - and >>>> that's awesome! Thenk you very much. >>>> Of course it will be hard to 'sell' it with a 'hey, look how easy it >>>> is to realize that with LilyPond ;-) >>> >>> Let's see how we can improve on that. >> [...] >> >> Hi David, >> >> thanks a lot for your thoughts, proposals and the effort you've put on this. >> I was sure that there were several instances in my code which could >> have been done better. > > I'm great at improving things and bad at doing them in the first place. > Because I can't bring myself to write something down that "merely" works > first, and then improve it afterwards. > >> Though, because noone else came up with a working solution, I posted >> it in it's current state. > > Sure. Getting something done is important as a first step. > >> Will have a closer look later this evening. > > A programming environment/language is well designed if the first > solution that comes to mind is not far from elegant and/or optimal. > > The way LilyPond's components tie together and that our learning > material helps with understanding and leads to further documentation > does not exactly make that easy. > > It's one of the reasons I tailride on such threads and try promoting > simpler solutions, and when everything else fails, write helper routines > to make this possible. > > -- > David Kastrup
Hi David, Urs, I'm sorry I didn't try to improve my recent code with David's proposals. In a few hours (after sleep) I'll start my vacations, being offline for three weeks. Perhaps someone else might catch the ball. Cheers, Harm _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
