[Lazarus] Fwd: New Lazarus pascal conference

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk
Wed Oct 15 11:02:11 CEST 2014


Giuliano Colla wrote:
> Il 15/10/2014 00:14, Graeme Geldenhuys ha scritto:
>> On 2014-10-14 06:11, Vincent Snijders wrote:
>>> It is not in Amsterdam, but in Leiden.
>> I knew that, but 99.9% of the people have probably never heard of
>> Leiden, so considering that Amsterdam is 15 minutes away I listed the
>> more well known city. :)
>>
> 
> You underestimate the list readers!
> Whoever has taken an elementary course in physics has learned about the 
> Leiden bottle, or Leiden jar, the grand-grandfather of modern 
> capacitors! :-)

You beat me to it :-) Although in the UK they're more frequently spelt 
"Leyden".

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