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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The most surprising Unix programs
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 09:06:54 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2003210902150.11999@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200320145257.GD10251@mcvoy.com>

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On Fri, 20 Mar 2020, Larry McVoy wrote:

>> 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.

"Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hofstadter would 
be a good introduction too.

-- Dave

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-03-20 22:07 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
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 [this message]
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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