Re: [Rosegarden-devel] [Rosegarden-user] tedious job

[Shelagh M. <on...@tp...>]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:50:47 +0100, Guillaume Laurent wrote:

> On Tuesday 20 March 2007 12:47, immanuel litzroth wrote:
>>
>> Scheme has had closures for over 20 years.So it must be good for
>> scripting midi apps too.
> 
> Gee, thanks for telling me, I really had no idea.
> 
>> Next.
> 
> Ruby has a simple syntax that can conceivably be shown to non-programming 
> types. It is well known and has a thriving community. Scheme barely exists in 
> comparison. No large application has scheme bindings except for Gimp, but 
> Guile seems to have pretty much disappeared otherwise.

(and gnucash and lilypond)
> 
> Before this gets any further, please don't go into a religious crusade about 
> your pet language. Though I admit Ruby is mine, I still prefer Kross because 
> the standard binding for it is JavaScript, which fits the bill even more in 
> terms of simplicity and being well known.

Kross is language agnostic, and already has bindings for ruby and python,
and javascript. But will be easy to use for any language, including
scheme. I think it sounds (from my totally incompetent perspective) like a
jolly good idea.


Shelagh (who lurks)