Q - Equational Programming Language

> I think one probably need to bother with GetMagickQuantumDepth /
SetQuantumDepth to make play more fair.

Right. If you can put together a patch, please toss it my way so that I
can commit it. Thanks.

> But now it looks like Pure is better and more vivid specimen, doesn't
it?

Certainly. Q doesn't support 64 bit architectures, and it runs much
slower. Pure fully supports 64 bit, has a JIT compiler, and interfacing to
C is much easier. Also, the built-in matrix type makes working with raw
pixel or audio data a breeze. Packages and ports are already available for
OSX and SUSE Linux, Fedora is in the works. In a sense, Pure *is* the next
version of Q, so this is where all the action is now. If you're interested
in Q then you should definitely take a look at it. There's also a mailing
list/Google group at http://groups.google.com/group/pure-lang.

Well, this seems to work, thank you. I think one probably need to bother
with GetMagickQuantumDepth / SetQuantumDepth to make play more fair.

Does the advice about your new language mean that you have abandoned the Q
development in favor of Pure? I have an intention to bring back Q and it's
library collection to my Linux distribution (they were occasionally dropped
one day). But now it looks like Pure is better and more vivid specimen,
doesn't it?

> Looks like major API changes :(

Indeed. The following #define's (pilfered from
http://www.ysnb.net/meadow/meadow-develop/2002/msg01069.html) may help;
they are to be added to magick.c. This assumes that your ImageMagick
library was built with 16 bit color depth. Can you please try whether this
works for you?

#define ScaleQuantumToShort(quantum) ((unsigned short) (quantum))
#define ScaleShortToQuantum(value) ((Quantum) (value))

Other than that, I can only suggest to try Pure (Q's successor, available
at http://pure-lang.googlecode.com/). Pure doesn't have an ImageMagick
module right now, but it's very easy to build one using the pure-gen
interface generator. Actually I have already done this, I just haven't
released it (yet). Just let me know if I should send it to you.