Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
To: "Andrew Bernard" <address@hidden>
Cc: "LilyPond User Group" <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 4:23 PM
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...

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David Kastrup

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FWIW I did all my physics lecture notes for my BSc with a Rotring pen.

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Phil Holmes