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Re: stepping down as project manager


From: Hans Aberg
Subject: Re: stepping down as project manager
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:37:40 +0200

On 12 Oct 2012, at 09:01, Graham Percival wrote:

> ...  After I'm finished my phd, I'll do the thing
> which every computer science student should do at least once in
> their life: I'll make my own language.  I'm not comfortable with
> the level of abstractions that lilypond offers.  Just like
> different programming languages make it easier (or harder) to
> write certain types of programs, a different sheet music language
> would make it easier to express the type of music that I write.
> I'll write a python script which transforms a text file into a .ly
> file.  

One idea is to first Guile style library for Lilypond, and then write a new, 
more statically typed language on top of that. Have you thought about that?

Hans





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