Re: Several questions concerning scheme-music-function

[Peter Engelbert]

I know this is late, but I just wanted to chime in -- thank you Urs for your
book.  I have spent many hours staring at it and enjoying it.  Your book, in
combination with The Little Schemer and the lilypond extension reference, have
helped me start to understand the power of extending Lilypond.  Your book is
the easiest to understand resource with Lilpond in mind.  I hope you are able
to update it soon, but I know you are doing it in your free time (and I still
have several more chaptert to get through).

Be well,
Peter

On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 11:53:02AM +0200, Urs Liska wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> 
> you may have a look at https://scheme-book.ursliska.de
> 
> It is *far* from complete and significantly less authoritative than the other 
> resources, but it is explicitly written with LilyPond in mind and with 
> efforts to overcome exactly these understanding obstacles (I wrote that when 
> my recollection of the struggle was quite fresh).
> 
> Best
> Urs
> 
> 
> Am 27. Mai 2018 11:49:16 MESZ schrieb Robert Schmaus <address@hidden>:
> >Thanks Aaron,
> >
> >it's rather on-topic I guess. Or rather: I'm afraid.
> >
> >In your first link, there's a sample chapter of "The Little Schemer" 
> >available. You'd think that they would put something up that's acutally
> >
> >helpful at getting the idea of Scheme and/or that book. And maybe that 
> >even was their intention! But ... can you make any sense of this?
> >
> >http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS/sample.pdf
> >
> >I certainly can't.
> >
> >I guess my problem is: Scheme seems to be a very nice intellectual 
> >exercise. I'm sure it's very elegant and - ultimately - very powerful 
> >(as I can see in the snippet repository) but it's also very unlike 
> >everything that's used normally. But Scheme is near impossible to read 
> >and therefore also to write.
> >
> >There was a discussion about Scheme vs other languages a couple of
> >years 
> >back. I can't find the start of that thread, but this is part of it:
> >
> >https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-06/msg00185.html
> >
> > From that thread, I take away the comfort that I'm not the only one 
> >with Scheme-problems.
> >Now, I can live with that - most of the times I don't have to customise
> >
> >anything anyway. It's just, that with Scheme, I know, I'll never get 
> >into it, too.
> >
> >
> >Ok, thanks again for the references. I think for now, I simply stay 
> >within the "out of the box" Lilypond limits. I'd have to invest hours
> >of 
> >learning Scheme - that's not an option for the near future, I'm afraid.
> >
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Robert
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Am 27.05.18 um 07:19 schrieb Aaron Hill:
> >> On 2018-05-26 06:15, Robert Schmaus wrote:
> >>> so far, I was completely satisfied with out-of-the box lilypond and
> >>> rarely used anything involving scheme. Mainly because, I find this
> >>> language very counter-intuitive, but that's maybe because I code in
> >>> C-like languages all the time.
> >> 
> >> Hi Robert,
> >> 
> >> This is probably a little off-topic, but you might want to look at 
> >> picking up a copy of "The Little Schemer" [1].  It's based on the 
> >> earlier work, "The Little LISPer", which takes a very novel approach
> >to 
> >> teaching a programming language.  Another learning resource is "How
> >To 
> >> Design Programs" [2] along with Dr. Racket [3].  (Racket is the
> >current 
> >> name and release of PLT Scheme.)
> >> 
> >> [1]: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS/
> >> [2]: http://www.htdp.org/
> >> [3]: http://download.racket-lang.org/
> >> 
> >> -- Aaron Hill
> >> 
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