Mark D Lew wrote:
On Nov 10, 2005, at 12:19 AM, Owain Sutton wrote:
"In general, the use of new, innovative notation makes a piece harder
to understand and perform and its use should therefore be avoided. For
this reason, support for contemporary notation in LilyPond is limited."
That's an interesting notion. If something is more difficult to
understand it "should therefore be avoided".
What if they were publishing a physics textbook? Would they say,
"Differential equations make physics harder to understand and their use
should therefore be avoided"?
In other words, "This program doesn't do everything, but that's only a
problem if you're doing things we don't like".
This paraphrase is actually much less offensive. Nothing wrong with
declining to support things that don't interest you.
Actually, what I got from it was more "This program doesn't do
everything because we can't figure out how to program such things, so
we'll tell you you shouldn't do them out of a matter of taste, rather
than admit that you can't do them with Lime as a matter of our
incompetence, which we're too embarassed to admit publicly."
Whenever anybody brings up a matter of taste when a technical point is
raised, I realize that person doesn't understand or can't do what is
really being asked.
--
David H. Bailey
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