Hans Aberg <[email protected]> writes:

> 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?

It would seem that your first sentence has been written in a new
language already.  Perhaps you should explain this in English first for
the sake of bootstrapping this discussion?

-- 
David Kastrup


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