On Jul 3, 7:25 am, John O'Hagan <resea...@johnohagan.com> wrote: > > I agree to some extent, but as a counter-example, when I was a child there > a subject called "Weights and Measures" which is now redundant because of the > Metric system. I don't miss hogsheads and fathoms at all. > > Music is another field which could do with a "metrification": I get tired of > explaining to beginners why there's no B#, except when it's C. Check > outhttp://musicnotation.org
You assume that equal temperament is the only way to have music. Apart from the fact that there are non-tempered musics all over the world, even Bach Mozart and Beethoven did not write for/to equal temperament. In a pure/untempered C-scale A-flat is almost half a semitone sharper than G-sharp -- 8/5 vs 25/16. Similar for standardized languages: Python's indentation is nice -- except when you have to embed it into say, html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
