From: Guillaume L. <gla...@te...> - 2007-03-20 10:40:19
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On Tuesday 20 March 2007 11:16, immanuel litzroth wrote: > > In the process I've discovered that Ruby is a really nice > > > > language. > > Can you more specific? What are the technical feats that make R. > a good choice as a scripting language for a midi application? I can point at least one : it's safe to assume that for scripting a midi app, the thing you'll be doing the most will be iterating over elements (notes, tracks, whatever), applying functions over each of the elements. And this is something Ruby is very good at expressing, thanks to closures. Aside of that, Ruby is among the very few languages I've ever seen which I found to be so cool and well designed that it actually made me want to code in it. That said, I still think that Kross is the way to go, although perhaps we can wait (or ask) for it to be integrated in kdelibs, even if that means postponing that feature to KDE4. -- Guillaume. http://telegraph-road.org |