On 30/05/2012, at 9:10 pm, David Kastrup wrote: > Lua with "separate statements with > semicolon or newline or space, I don't care" is nicer, but it is > procedural, not functional,
And right there is an excellent reason to prefer it to Scheme. There are some people who really like functional programming, but for most people functional programming is arcane and confusing, and procedural far more natural. To tempt ordinary users to dip their toe into scripting, a procedural language is the way to go. Best wishes, Matthew -- Matthew Collett [email protected] | [email protected] 8 Youngs Lane, Newmarket, Auckland 1050 | Physics Department, (09) 523 0290 Mobile: 021 072 0088 | University of Auckland http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~m_collett | (09) 373 7599 x88837 _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
