Re: [q-lang-users] Just starting with Q

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Burton Samograd wrote:
> Thanks for the very informative response to my newbie problems :)

No problem. In fact those newbie questions are valuable input for the 
book about Q that I'm writing. I really have to add a "common pitfalls" 
chapter to the book where I describe the usual suspects and how to deal 
with them, and it's nice to have a ml archive which I can harvest for 
that. :) So keep the newbie questions coming...

> 3 shows this week, work and remix contests

Are you a musician? Q has quite a bit of stuff to offer there. Together 
with two colleagues, I'll be giving a talk on some of these interfaces 
at ICMC 2006 in New Orleans.

> so I'm glad that one finally exists that isn't
> putting kid gloves on me (Python), or concrete shoes (Haskell) and
> let's one 'hack' like you're supposed to :D

Yes, Q's certainly intended as a hacker's tool, in Paul Graham's sense. 
I love hacking away on problems, developing stuff from the bottom up, 
and IMHO Q supports that style fairly well.

Albert

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Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
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