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 _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
