Re: [linux-audio-dev] libcui - design-question

From: Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen <k.s.matheussen@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Sep 23 2005 - 17:50:35 EEST

Tim Goetze:

>>>breathe deeply. think of snakes. say "python".
>>
>>Are you serious? Do you know python? I hope not...
>>
>>I don`t want to start a flame-war over programming languages,
>>but I know both scheme and python very well, and would
>>never consider python as an extension language again.
>
>Would you care to back up this judgment by a few facts?

No, I don't. I don't want to start a flame-war... I just say
I know both languages very well. Its hard to explain (but
not impossible though) why scheme is a better language.
If you had known lisp well, you had probably known what I ment.

>One has to consider that a scripting extension for an application like
>ardour, with an intended audience of little to no programming
>knowledge, will have to be as painless and intuitive to learn and use
>as possible and still provide power and freedom of expression to the
>savvy.

In my opinion, scheme is such a language. It takes some time
to learn if you are not used to s-expressions though.

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