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From: | Jean-Luc Chevillard |
Subject: | Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages |
Date: | Wed, 16 Sep 2015 09:54:22 +0530 |
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Greetings (from Pondicherry, India) Age: 59 My first degree was in Mathematics, and then I migrated to Linguistics (or rather to the History of Linguistics, which I see as part of the "History of Science"). This is the domain where I did my Ph.D (in the eighties). I am a researcher (at CNRS) working on the ancient Tamil Shastric (i.e. "scholarly/scientific/«grammatical»") literature. I also work on the Tamil devotional corpus, which has been transmitted for many centuries with Musical Information attached. There is also some metrical/rythmic information attached to that corpus. At the time of MS-DOS, in the eighties, I have written a number of small utilities in Assembly language, and have also some familiarity with a number of programming languages (although I tend to view them with the point of view of the "historian of science" and frequently buy nowadays, on ABE books, second-hand Descriptions of Languages (from the sixties, the seventies, the eighties, etc.) which have been discarded by libraries, wondering all the time what life would have been if I had really used those languages and marvelling at the creativity of all those geniuses. I have almost all the books of D.E. Knuth, starting with TAOCP, and continuing with his Collected Papers, etc. I have never really seriously used TeX and MetaFont but I have bought the books containing the listings of those programs (in Pascal) I have discovered LilyPond a few years ago and use it for transcribing Tamil Hymns for which I have found svara notation (in sa-ri-ga-ma format), as for instance in the following examples: "https://univ-paris-diderot.academia.edu/JeanLucChevillard/Musical-Transcription" I have never used Frescobaldi (I am not sure what it is, but I see it mentionned frequently on the list) and write my .ly files using a text editor (I currently use NotePad+) I enjoy reading messages on this mailing list and have received helpful advice on a few occasions when I asked for help Greetings to all -- Jean-Luc Chevillard (Paris -- Pondicherry -- Hamburg) "https://univ-paris-diderot.academia.edu/JeanLucChevillard" "https://plus.google.com/u/0/113653379205101980081/posts/p/pub" "https://twitter.com/JLC1956" On 2015-08-26 22:10, Urs Liska wrote:
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