C-beauty

C-beauty

[Adrian Knoth]

Hi,

concerning <rgo8z7te6zv.fsf@work11.ipp-hgw.mpg.de> I feel I should
translate:

"The last beauty that was written in C was Schubert's 9th symphony."

SCNR :)

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Das Leben unertraeglich war, drum rauchte er nur Atika.

Re: C-beauty

[Richard Riehle]

Adrian Knoth wrote:

> Hi,
>
> concerning <rgo8z7te6zv.fsf@work11.ipp-hgw.mpg.de> I feel I should
> translate:
>
> "The last beauty that was written in C was Schubert's 9th symphony."
>
> SCNR :)

Alas, poor Schubert.   Number nine.  Number nine. Number nine.   As good as
it was, choosing to write in C was, if one pays attention to Mahler, his
fatal
mistake.

> Das Leben unertraeglich war, drum rauchte er nur Atika.

Dann bekam Leben noch besser, als er das Rauchen aufgab.

Richard Riehle

Re: C-beauty

[Dan Andreatta]

Adrian Knoth <adi@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de> wrote in 
news:slrnabd4ta.jh5.adi@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de:

> Hi,
> 
> concerning <rgo8z7te6zv.fsf@work11.ipp-hgw.mpg.de> I feel I should
> translate:
> 
> "The last beauty that was written in C was Schubert's 9th symphony."
> 
> SCNR :)
> 

And in C#? Mahler's 5th, of course ;-)

Dan

Re: C-beauty

[Georg Bauhaus]

Dan Andreatta <andreatta@mail.chem.sc.edu.removeme> wrote:
: 
: And in C#? Mahler's 5th, of course ;-)

I hope no one is going to build D flat :)

- Georg Bauhaus

Re: C-beauty

[Simon Wright]

Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> writes:

> Dan Andreatta <andreatta@mail.chem.sc.edu.removeme> wrote:
> : 
> : And in C#? Mahler's 5th, of course ;-)
> 
> I hope no one is going to build D flat :)

IIRC Al Stevens (a Dr Dobb's columnist) had a project (IDE?) called D Flat ..

Re: C-beauty

[Jerry van Dijk]

Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:

> IIRC Al Stevens (a Dr Dobb's columnist) had a project (IDE?) called D Flat ..

A character based CUA library, actually. Of course, it does show that he is a
keyboard player :-)

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