On Tuesday 29 May 2001 23:46, Allan Rae wrote:
> FWIW, a number of Python folk are interested in LyX -- both for personal
> use (with python.cls etc.) and as a possible unofficial documenting tool.
> Their official documenting tools are a couple of scripts and any text
> editor and they aren't about to change that in a hurry. I know a couple
> of people in particular who are Python gurus (one's a Python Team member)
> who would love to get their hands dirty in LyX (with Python of course).
This would appear to support the idea I was putting forth: for each language,
we should have someone (or multiple people) interested in doing the support
of that langauge within LyX. That way we (a) gain their expertise, and (b)
we don't dilute the development efforts of the LyX Team.
> Anyway, past discussions have usually ended up with Python as best because
> it's readable/writable even for newbies. Scheme/Lisp usually dropped as a
> bad idea because no-one cares to type all the ()'s and Perl as a possible
> second language.
Would it be such a big deal if someone actually wanted to do it (ie, support
Scheme/Lisp)? Assuming that we make the space for them to work available,
then we could share in knowledge, and gain from having more languages
available.
And, this would probably work well for those interested in having Lua support
as well....
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