> Computer Science - Brian Kernighan on successful language design
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg4U4r_AgJU
> "How to succeed in language design without really trying."
Very interesting. It's somewhat amusing to see that already
in 1961 (!) the proliferation of languages was considered
a Ba
At 2018-05-04T23:30:15+0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> > Going forward, should groff generate a warning if a document
> > contains an undefined value of .hy, so that this problem will not
> > recur with any future changes?
>
> This makes sense. I currently can't remember whether other, similar
>
> > Interestingly he mispronounces TeX as Tech
> So do I these days. Isn't that correct?
Depends how you pronounce "Tech". :-)
If you pronounce it "tek" (as in "technology"), then it's wrong.
According to Knuth, the "ch" is supposed to be pronounced as
in the Scottish "loch". (If you don't k
I do too. Always have, and saying "Tecks" just sounds unnatural to me. =)
> Isn't that correct?
Yes, from the words of Knuth himself, I believe.
In other words, I still refuse to humour Steve Wilhite by NOT pronouncing
"GIF" as "Jiff". =) CompuServe can consider it payback for the patent scare.
Hi Steffen,
> Interestingly he mispronounces TeX as Tech
So do I these days. Isn't that correct?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX#Pronunciation_and_spelling
--
Cheers, Ralph.
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Mike Bianchi wrote:
|True confession: Brian Kernighan is my hero. (stories upon request)
|
|In this talk, starting at about 41:45, he talks about the history of \
|creating
|the eqn, pic, grap "little languages".
|I offer it for those who might want a sense of how groff wound up where \
|
*> Interestingly, Brian repeatedly says "troff's time has past".*
Oh? We'll see about that. =)
On 5 May 2018 at 07:39, Mike Bianchi wrote:
> True confession: Brian Kernighan is my hero. (stories upon request)
>
> In this talk, starting at about 41:45, he talks about the history of
> creating
True confession: Brian Kernighan is my hero. (stories upon request)
In this talk, starting at about 41:45, he talks about the history of creating
the eqn, pic, grap "little languages".
I offer it for those who might want a sense of how groff wound up where it is
and why it survives.
Interesting
> Going forward, should groff generate a warning if a document
> contains an undefined value of .hy, so that this problem will not
> recur with any future changes?
This makes sense. I currently can't remember whether other, similar
flag registers exhibit similar behaviour.
Werner
Hi Werner,
I know groff isn't your primary focus anymore, so I'm pleased to see
you've tackled these hyphenation bugs and enhancements.
On 3/1/18, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> o The `.hy' request should now work as documented (again).
> Additionally, I've added values 16 and 32 to hyphenate before
Hey Ralph,
Sorry about the slow reply: I missed your email completely! Didn't even
notice that you'd responded...
> Am I right in understanding your Javascript asks the widget to
> render some text in a particular font, size, and location, and what
> pixels are set, e.g. for anti-aliasing, are u
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