Re: Scheme syntax vs. other languages

[Jonathan Wilkes]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Graham Percival <address@hidden>
> To: Jonathan Wilkes <address@hidden>
> Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 2:09 PM
> Subject: Re: Scheme syntax vs. other languages
> 
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:49:28AM -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>>  > From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
>>  >
>>  > The important border
>>  > is that between LilyPond and Scheme.  Here is where empowerment of the
>>  > user happens.  Or not.
>> 
>>  Can you explain a little about how that empowerment happens? 
> 
> Users can change the behaviour of lilypond without recompiling.
> That is useful because 99% of users do not have a development
> system set up.  Lilypond "ships" with a scheme interpreter.

So you're talking about users being able to plug in solution given 
to them by a developer directly in an .ly file, right?

> 
> Now can you two please take this discussion to private mail?

Nope.

> I don't think it's going anywhere.

Then do something you find more productive during the time you 
would have been reading this thread.

-Jonathan

> 
> - Graham
>