Hi Michael,
That is sound advice. Thanks.!
Dave
What kind of complexity are we talking about with bash scripting?
> Programming logic is programming logic, for the most part. Every
> language has different ways of achieving the same fundamental things.
> If you did BASIC on a Commodore 64 back in the day or Turbo Pascal or
> something like that, you have a programming background.
>
> Before Rosegarden, I don't think I ever worked on anything that was
> complicated enough to involve one source file and I'm not sure if I ever
> wrote a header. I had done a thing or two in C, a lot of stuff in
> Pascal, and I knew absolutely zilch about object-oriented programming,
> and figured the advent of OOP was the final coffin nail in any utility I
> could have ever had as a programmer.
>
> I had some problem or other I wanted to work on that the damn lazy trio
> of Cannam, Bown and Laurent--worthless louts every one of them--wasn't
> getting done fast enough to suit me, and I bought a copy of "Learn C++
> in 21 Days" and got to work on whatever the problem was. Something with
> accidental spelling or LilyPond, I'm thinking.
>
> It can be done. I'm not particularly gifted at the coder's trade, which
> is why I drive a gasoline tanker for a living. I figured all this cool
> Rosegarden experience would translate to the real world somehow, but it
> really doesn't. My skillset serves only one purpose, and it's custom
> tailored to help me work on the one project. I'm not the most effective
> developer here by a long shot either, but at Rosegarden "better than
> nothing" goes a long way.
>
> "Better than nothing" is actually kind of a high bar though. This was
> always a rotten project for anyone to cut his teeth on back in the glory
> days, and it's much worse now. The most effective developers these days
> are extremely independent, and capable of working through incredibly
> complicated problems on their own. There is nobody to offer help with
> any regularity but me, and I, folks, am basically an idiot. Rosegarden
> is kind of like some big city built by giants that's currently run by a
> house elf or something, because the giants all got girlfriends and found
> better things to do.
>
> If I ever find a girlfriend, I'm probably gone too, truth be told, but
> that's another story.
>
> Anyway, David, you can probably do it, but the question is what do you
> want to do, and why? If you want to accomplish something, the place to
> start is finding a goal, and then working through whatever you have to
> get through to achieve it. Qt is probably the least of your worries.
> I'm probably better at Qt than any of the developers we have on staff
> right now who get real work done. The real work doesn't really involve
> that much Qt. It's more about getting into the heads of the giants and
> trying to figure out what the hell they were thinking, which is
> frequently not very obvious at all. Rosegarden is not a friendly
> project to work on, I fear.
>
> If you're determined enough, you can get there though. Pick something
> you want to achieve, and go from there!
> --
> D. Michael McIntyre
>
>
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