Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 13, No. 463.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 07:56:04 +0000
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: mille grazie
Dear Colleagues:
No one but myself and its author can see the elegance of the newly
redesigned and adapted perl code that I use for processing Humanist
messages; all you may be able to detect is my slightly less pressurised
manner. The covert improvement is due not so much to the charm that the
elegence of this design has over me, more to the simple fact that
processing the messages now takes so much less effort than before. So, I
wish publically to thank Malgosia Askanas (of the Spoon Collective), who
first volunteered to improve my situation, then actually did so. Many hours
of programming were involved.
Some of you are old enough in the seminar to remember that the original
code was written by Michael Sperberg-McQueen, to help us out of a pickle
(the Pickle of Too Many Messages, or so was claimed in those heady, naive
days) by allowing me to group messages together thematically. Then, when I
moved to London, John Bradley rewrote the code so that it would work better
here, and so it did. The need to make the changes that provoked Malgosia's
redesign was caused by the move of the processing site to IATH (Virginia),
whose collaboration with us at King's College London is also most
gratefully acknowledged.
"Do what you do only out of love."
Yours,
WM
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Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London
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maui gratia
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