On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 at 16:33 -0700, Stuart Jansen wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 16:19 -0700, Bryan Sant wrote: > > On 2/15/07, Levi Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I feel I have to give COBOL a pass because we just didn't know any > > > better back then. That, and it was Grace Hopper's baby, and she is > > > undeniably cool. Its continued existence is at once a tribute to the > > > Admiral and a sad state of affairs in the software business. > > > > > > --Levi > > > > Agreed, Grace Hopper was the bomb. She used to carry around a length > > of copper wire in her pocket which she used to remind people that this > > was how far your data travels in one millisecond. Hard core. > > On the topic of not knowing better: TeX is also a really horrible > language. But Donald Knuth is my hero. > > http://blogs.gurulabs.com/stuart/archives/2005/02/i_have_a_new_he.html
Lilypond is a tool created in an era when they should have known better, but which perhaps might be given a by because it is heavily influenced by TeX. Lilypond is my hero, in any case. But man what a mess. -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
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