"Mark Stephen Mrotek" <carsonm...@ca.rr.com> writes: > lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr....@gnu.org wrote: >> Of David Kastrup >> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 8:24 AM >> To: Andrew Bernard <andrew.bern...@gmail.com> >> Cc: LilyPond User Group <lilypond-user@gnu.org> >> Subject: Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages >> >> Andrew Bernard <andrew.bern...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> <lilypond-user-bounces+andrew.bernard=gmail....@gnu.org on behalf of >>> imj-muz...@bluewin.ch> wrote: >>>> >>>>>1€ question for the young : whom does EWD stand for, and did he bring >>>>>to computer science? >>> >>> Writing by hand with a fountain pen. Look it up folks! >> >> Seriously? My dad did all of his Theoretical Physics stuff including >> the scripts by fountain pen for probably more than 4 decades. And he >> is 4 years younger than Dijkstra (if you digged up the latter). He >> still does for his own work, though he switched to LaTeX for scripts >> and articles a few decades ago. I don't know how many bottles of ink >> and blotter rolls he may have used up over the years... > > With a great deal of respect and admiration, I return to you a quote > you once sent to me: > > Wrangling down that attacking Rottweiler was actually not all that > hard. It boils down to the same grips and holds we used to employ for > killing lions when I was young.
Oh, lions were smart enough not to mess with my dad. Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
