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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Richard Salz <rich.salz@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The most surprising Unix programs
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 07:52:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200320145257.GD10251@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFH29tqKJx8M5t_0uMXw_5jx++phP7jS=ZtaWbo9i0WSA5JHbg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 10:08:50AM -0400, Richard Salz wrote:
> A cool thing about tools is that you never know how it will be used.
> 
> Bach's prelude in C major from Well-Tempered Clavier book I, written in
> pure (GNU) sed: https://github.com/laserbat/bach.sed

If someone understands how this all works, my less capable brain would
love an explanation.  My dad and my kid have told me that classical
music is math but I've never seen it.  Seems like this is probably
the example I need.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-20 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-20 14:03 Noel Chiappa
2020-03-20 14:08 ` Richard Salz
2020-03-20 14:52   ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2020-03-20 14:58     ` Dagobert Michelsen
2020-03-20 15:05       ` Richard Salz
2020-03-20 22:09       ` Mike Markowski
2020-03-20 15:03     ` Gregg Levine
2020-03-20 15:05       ` Chet Ramey
2020-03-20 22:06     ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-21  4:59     ` Wesley Parish
2020-03-20 21:57   ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-22 18:05     ` Tony Finch
2020-03-20 15:07 ` Nemo
2020-03-20 19:03   ` Adam Thornton
2020-03-20 16:07 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-09-13 15:44   ` Juergen Nickelsen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-03-21  1:12 Noel Chiappa
2020-03-19 20:57 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2020-03-19 21:18 ` Tomasz Rola
2020-03-20  7:14 ` arnold
2020-03-20  7:49   ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-03-20  8:18     ` arnold
2020-03-13 23:31 Doug McIlroy
2020-03-14  0:40 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-14 11:30 ` Harald Arnesen
2020-03-14 12:24   ` Clem Cole
2020-03-15 22:01     ` Rob Pike
2020-03-15 22:14       ` Larry McVoy
2020-03-15 23:34         ` Warner Losh
2020-03-16  2:45           ` Anthony Martin
2020-03-15 22:30       ` Clem Cole
2020-03-15 23:20       ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-16  0:56         ` Rob Pike
2020-03-20 23:20           ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-20 23:35             ` Toby Thain
2020-03-21  0:34             ` Rob Pike
2020-03-17 13:03 ` ca6c
2020-03-17 13:30   ` Andy Kosela
2020-03-17 14:53     ` Cág
2020-03-17 14:57       ` Larry McVoy
2020-03-17 14:59         ` Arrigo Triulzi
2020-03-17 15:40   ` Steve Nickolas
2020-03-17 22:28   ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-18  0:17     ` Jon Steinhart
2020-03-18  3:28       ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-18  8:40     ` arnold
2020-03-19 12:26     ` Mike Markowski
2020-03-19 21:31       ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-20 11:48         ` paul
2020-03-20 15:40           ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-03-20 16:40             ` Jon Steinhart
2020-03-20 17:23               ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-03-20 18:43               ` Rich Morin
2020-03-19 20:01   ` Tomasz Rola

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