Re: Lilypond structure / implicit - explicit / with statement

[David Kastrup]

Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:

> On 04.04.2016 22:19, Johannes Waldmann wrote:
>> The docs do make considerable effort to explain, e.g.,
>> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/learning/contexts-and-engravers
>>   .
>> If at all, I might criticize this for being in the wrong order:
>> 2. Common Notation, 3. Fundamental Concepts - but how can we
>> use or learn a language (syntax, notation) without knowing
>> its underlying semantical model first?
>
> That is because many people who get a go at LilyPond (such as me) are
> not programmers, but musicians with little background knowledge about
> or experience with programming.

Well, you seem to be faring pretty well.

> It seems that a majority of LilyPond users are either music
> professionals with a knack for logics and programming, or (active or
> retired) programmers who are hobby musicians. It’s hard to satisfy
> both at once.

Not really, but improvements for one are often not tangible benefits for
the other, at least initially.

Matching both targets is the art of program design.  That's a modern
form of counterpoint.

-- 
David Kastrup