Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

[David Kastrup]

"Mark Stephen Mrotek" <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden wrote:
>> Of David Kastrup
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 8:24 AM
>> To: Andrew Bernard <address@hidden>
>> Cc: LilyPond User Group <address@hidden>
>> Subject: Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages
>>
>> Andrew Bernard <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> <address@hidden on behalf of
>>> address@hidden> 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