Showing posts with label Gustave Eiffel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gustave Eiffel. Show all posts
Friday, September 26, 2014
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Panama - Eddie Van Halen / Paul Shaffer and The World's Most Dangerous Band - David Letterman - 1984 (youtube)
Random Recollection - Back in my Eiffel days, I suggested the name Panama, for an Eiffel-like derivative scripting language, based on the fact that Gustave Eiffel had been involved (controversially) in the creation of the Panama Canal. The suggestion was well received, however a little bit searching found that the name had already taken by Oracle (more here). The language would be ultimately named Amber.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Getting Started
Need to start again with something. Why not a quote from Gustave Eiffel which started it all for me back in the early 1990's:
Must it be assumed that because we are engineers beauty is not our concern, and that while we make our constructions robust and durable we do not also strive to make them elegant?Gustave Eiffel, 1887 - From his response in Le Tempsto a petition by members of the literary and artistic Establishment protesting his project of elevating a tower of iron in Paris.
Is it not true that the genuine conditions of strength always comply with the secret conditions of harmony?
The first principle of architectural esthetics is that the essential lines of a monument must be determined by a perfect adaptation to its purpose.
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