Hello, world … in case you haven’t heard, the northeastern United States is in the middle of a doozy of a snowstorm …
this was the view of my bedroom window when I got up this morning.
Are you wondering “why the Swedish flag?”
My studio doesn’t have enough room remaining for me to practice guitar, so the bedroom has become the dedicated guitar space.
My gorgeous .strandberg* electric guitar is – like Ola Strandberg – very Swedish, and that lovely bit of stained glass is my way of dedicating the space to serious practice.
Here’s an article about Ola and his remarkable ergonomic guitars:
https://www.guitarworld.com/features/ola-strandberg-guitar-ergonomics
Wish me luck on digging out after the storm … we’ve had 20 inches/ 50 centimeters so far, and there’s 8 or 9 hours to go!
A great day for hunkering down, and playing guitar.
![› ... The problem was that, to the Swedes, characters like
› {}|\ were letters, not syntactic symbols.
›
› It's a real problem. I gather that the best-equipped users
› had terminals that would switch graphics depending on
› whether they were writing C or documents.
›
› Dennis Ritchie
That's right, writing C and shell commands is almost impossible on a terminal with a swedish character set. Even Pascal is a bit hard, but some compilers will accept (* *) instead of { } and (. .) instead of [ ].
If you have a terminal with selectable character sets, you can train your editor to switch, depending on what type of text you are editing. I have set up EMACS so that it selects the right character set on my VT100 depending on what mode I'm in (which in turn is controlled by filename suffixes). This works even if I have two windows, one with C code in it and the other holding a document in swedish.
Leif Samuelsson
LM ERICSSON Tel. Co.
S-126 25 STOCKHOLM
SWEDEN
..{decvax, philabs}!mcvax!enea!erix!leif
"E { e }, } i }a { e |"
"It is a river, and in the river there is an island"
(This is a dialect of swedish. My apologies to the people in the
province of V{rmland for the lack of a V{rmland character set).](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/116/120/123/593/490/639/original/a285f8b00a2b7320.png)
