On Sat, May 05, 2018 at 11:35:14AM +0200, Andreas Eder wrote:
> On Sa 05 Mai 2018 at 01:15, Tadziu Hoffmann
> wrote:
> > (BTW, most Germans who use it also pronounce it wrong,
> > namely as in "ich" instead of as in "Bach".)
>
> What do you mean by that? The sound of the 'ch' is the same in both
On Sa 05 Mai 2018 at 01:15, Tadziu Hoffmann
wrote:
> (BTW, most Germans who use it also pronounce it wrong,
> namely as in "ich" instead of as in "Bach".)
What do you mean by that? The sound of the 'ch' is the same in both
cases.
'Andreas ( a german native speaker :-) )
Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
|> 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 proliferati
> 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
> > 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.
https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy
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
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