Hi Mark,
I agree with the others in their praise of Composer.

Before Composer I struggled with a lot of other programs, and was pleased when Mark's Composer had the promise of scoring music so easily. And he has realised that promise.

I was in one of our software stores the other day and noticed that 'Finale' have a cheap version of a scoring program ($134 Aus). What I noticed that they offered in with the product was two things:
(a) A scanning program that converts to score, and
(b) A melody audio recognition system.

So Mark, it looks like the 10-11 years to get Composer to this stage is only the beginning - there are many more wonderful challenges and new ground to break.

But based on your success of the past with Composer, I'm sure we will see new inovations in Composer that leave the others behind.

Cheers ... Clyde