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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.