John, you need to loosen your Goedel... By the way, Skink handles the alternate bar stuff you posted, but I have no idea what it "should" look like. What would you have expected?
wil John Chambers wrote: > Laura writes: > | >>>>> "John" == John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > | John> ABC's niche that led to its success is that it's a > | John> relatively simple, basic, plain-text notation that is > | John> compact and mailable. It doesn't require a sophisticated > | John> UI; it can be typed (and read) by mere humans. > | > | I fail to see that ABC would be less compact or mailable if we were to > | define the meaning in terms of pitch of "^f-|f". > > Heh, heh. Should I feed the troll? ;-) > > That really wasn't what spurred by the "^f-|f" top9ic; it was in > response to the suggestion that we absolutely need abc to be > precisely defined in all cases or else it's useless. It's easy to see > why people might like precision and unambiguity, but that isn't > likely with something as simple and compact as abc. And the claim > that we even need these things is disproved by the huge success of > "standard" (;-) staff notation. > > (Also, from my background as a math student I might also observe that > Kurt Goedel proved that we can't even reach total precision without > ambiguity. But that's another topic altogether.) > > To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: >http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
