C Unleashed

[Malcolm McLean]

Who doesn't?

<OT>
There's a small but very real market for incomprehensible books.
Poststructuralist readers, avant guarde works like Finnegan's Wake, there is
even a book written by the Elizabethan magician John Dee which consists
entirely of uninterpreted squiggles.
</OT>

 

[CBFalconer]

<OT>
There's a small but very real market for incomprehensible books.
Poststructuralist readers, avant guarde works like Finnegan's
Wake, there is even a book written by the Elizabethan magician
John Dee which consists entirely of uninterpreted squiggles.
</OT>

Who's the publisher and the price? Is it in print? Did he get my
permission to publish my code?

 

[Malcolm McLean]

Who's the publisher and the price? Is it in print? Did he get my
permission to publish my code?

It's called the Voynich manuscript. I checked and, though it certainly came
into the possession of John Dee, there is dispute as to whether it was
actually written by him.
You can buy it as
Le Code Voynich (Paris, Jean-Claude Gawsewitch, 2005.)

I'm afraid I don't know the price.

 

[Richard Bos]

It's called the Voynich manuscript. I checked and, though it certainly came
into the possession of John Dee,

Certainly? Reputedly. It _certainly_ came into the possession of Rudolf
of Bohemen in Dee's time, but the assumption that it was sold to him by
Dee is based mostly on the equally shaky assumption that it was written
by Bacon.

You can buy it as
Le Code Voynich (Paris, Jean-Claude Gawsewitch, 2005.)

Web skills are foo... <http://www.jcgawsewitch.com/livre.php?id_livre=4>

Richard

 

[Larry__Weiss]

Jack Klein said:


I have...


It is, but since I can no longer update that site, I'd prefer people to
look to
http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/portable/c/unleashed/errata/index.php
over which I retain control.

So complete that it includes an errata page concerning the cover of the
book. Is that a first?

http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/portable/c/unleashed/errata/ecover.php

Actually, that webpage reminds me of a director's cut narration on a
movie DVD.

- Larry

 

[Keith Thompson]

So complete that it includes an errata page concerning the cover of
the book. Is that a first?

http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/portable/c/unleashed/errata/ecover.php

[...]

It discusses the cover used by the publisher to market the book before
publication, not the actual published cover. (I suspect that's a
first.)