Re: [Denemo-devel] Documentation of Scheme interface

[Richard Shann]

On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 07:41 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> 
> You have been making many references about C and lack of object
> orientation. Have you ever used Objective-C. My iphone has an
> Objective-C available for it. I was tempted to install it and play
> around with it during some commutes to work. I was wondering if we
> could
> use that to convert some structures to Objective-C classes or
> something. 

It's not C that is to blame (witness gtk as an object oriented system
written in C). And Denemo is not devoid of object orientation, its just
that there are some of the really nitty gritty things which I find
inpenetrable and would have benefitted from more OO design. We just have
to write more functions like find_prevailing_clef() and retire stuff
that relies on side-effects of drawing the music.

I hope I haven't sounded too pessimistic a note - I am genuinely
surprised by the possibilities opened up by attaching a scripting engine
to the Denemo command set, it is very exciting. I wonder when we should
release though - early gives people a chance to join in more easily, but
might put people off because of snags we haven't ironed out - later
makes folks wait.

Richard