Am 23.12.2008 um 11:07 schrieb Francisco Vila:
2008/12/22 chip <[email protected]>:
Not everybody has a programmers mind. I don't. I have no interest
whatsoever
in programming. A person should be able to use a piece of software
without
having to be a programmer to do so. If a programming degree is
necessary to
use Lily then it is either a) not complete enough for the general
public to
use, and a warning message to this effect should be placed on the
web site
home page, or b) should be aimed at a different audience -
programmers/brainiacs.
If you use LilyPond, you are a programmer. LilyPond is a
programming language*.
It has sequences, loops, nested structures, variables.
It follows a syntax and gives you a result. Do not follow the syntax
and your output will be faulty or inexistent.
Having read the introduction to How to Design Programs everything is
programming. I guess we need to distinguish between different types
of programming then. I certainly wouldn't call using microsoft word
programming, but according to How to Design Programs, it is.
I think what he means here is that the programming required to use
the Scheme aspect of lilypond requires considerably more pre-existing
knowledge about designing software than to the knowledge one needs to
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