Laurie writes:
| Bruce Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said
| "... I've programed in TRUE BASIC an ABC player
| ...
| PS: I'm not a developer. ..."
|
| I think he must mean he didn't use to be a developer.
Sure 'nuf. And now Bruce is part of the cabal that's inflicting its
own ideas about ABC on the poor, oppressed user community.
The intonation ideas certainly sound interesting and useful, as well
as being definitely not part of the ABC standard in any sense. So it
seems that Bruce is definitely part of the cabal. He got there by the
usual route of writing some software that reads ABC notation and does
something with it that he personally finds useful. Then he offered it
for free to anyone who was interested. So now he will be subject to
all the usual criticism for hist dictatorial infliction of useful
software on users who weren't consulted about it beforehand.
I wonder what other sorts of evil extensions his player implements?
Maybe we can find out and secretly implement incompatible extensions
in other players. There are several sorts of microtone notations that
different groups of musicians have developed; this may be a good
starting point.
Maybe we should tell Bruce about the secret handshake ...
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