Re: tab characters in the source code

[Graham Percival]

On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 10:28:00PM +0200, Valentin Villenave wrote:
> 2009/4/9 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> > On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 03:33:06PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> >> Now how do we prevent that in some far away future,
> >> people will have forgotten this and propose to deviate from
> >> the Zebra standard?  I suggest to prefix all names in our
> >> softwares in our to be prefixed with "ZEBRA/".  For example:
> >> ZEBRA/LilyPond.  That will surely work!
> >
> > By the way, I *always* prefix LilyPond by an animal name when I
> > introduce it in my published papers.  :)
> 
> By the way, strictly speaking, the slash character is not appropriate.
> Correct syntax is with a whitespace:
> 
> $ANIMAL_NAME $ProjectName

Really?  So www.ZEBRA.org is incorrect?

... WTM?!  There actually *is* a "GNU Zebra" project?!?!  It does
TCP/IP routing.

> If there was a bearded wise guru in your ZEBRA group, I'm sure he'd be
> quite touchy about punctuation :)

I used to be bearded, but I got rid of that when I started working
on long hair.  I'm still wise, though.  :)

> > Nah; Valentin will keep the legend of the Grumpy Developer alive
> > in times to come.
> 
> So now you're a developer?

I said "developer", not "core developer".  See that top block of
people in the THANKS?  Right under the "DEVELOPMENT TEAM" heading?
Those are developers.  Including you.

> 2009/4/9 Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden>:
> > Brilliant!  Let's define the MOOSE/coding standards in an Opera!
> 
> Awesome. I'm precisely in search of a new libretto... And Graham
> chickened out when I offered him to write something with me :-)

Ok, over the summer we'll try to come up with the history of
PLATIPUS/LilyPond in a series of arias and duets.  The end of Act
1 will be a dramatic retelling of all the wiki flamewars.  Acts
normally end with a big confusing quartet with everybody saying
different things at once, right?

> BTW -- now that I'm thinking about it, I'm not sure I'd like to know
> what kind of music he's referring to as "power ballad".

You know those rambling, droning songs at indie rock shows with
very little drums and electric bass?  Where everybody waves lit
cigarette lighters in the air?  Those are power ballads.  Dunno
where the "power" comes from, since it's as acoustic as rock music
gets...

The fifths comment was a reference to "power chords", which
actually aren't chords at all, but are just called that by
ignorance rock guitarists.  It's just a fifth (possibly including
an octave as well).  Used in heavy metal and punk rock.  Almost
always used in succession, which would give a harmony instructor a
heart attack from all the parallel fifths.


BTW, my knowledge of such terms comes entirely from
questionablecontent.net, which is a webcomic vaguely like XKCD but
for indie rock geekery.  Before reading that webcomic, I knew
almost nothing about indie rock.  But QC is just /dripping/ in the
same amount of geekery as XKCD does, so I had to keep on reading
it (and looking up terms in wikipedia).

I really appreciate high-level geekery drippings.  Yum!

Cheers,
- Graham