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
next prev 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
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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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