From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2004-08-31T07:25:26+09:00
Subject: Re: TeX (was Re[2]: Typos (Was: performance comparison))

Hello Mikael,

>> Sorry i doubt that Knuth has real world experience.

MB> Conjuring into existance two different worlds and putting your opponent
MB> in the unworthy one is a very clever trick.  Actually, the phrase ``real
MB> world'' has nearly become an argument in itself.  You can use it to
MB> disqualify anything.  How convenient!

Excuse me but there are two worlds. Denying this means to ignore
facts.

This is because TeX is from the other world. Written out of pure
interest by one person to satisfy his needs. Without any pressure of
time or money. And after it could do what Knuth wanted it was frozen
and never modified again (only bug fixes). And it is a pure
algorithm driven program  [Input] --> [Output] (aka Compiler), very easy
to write and much different from what i see in any real large programs.

And it is not a large program.

LaTeX has thousands of other tools that were created to work around the
problems and bad design errors (useability) in TeX. So if you talk
about TeX in real word you must say LaTeX and then you enter a different
world.

I think this are some facts you missed.

And by the way, Knuth has written the bible because he was simply the
first one. Not more and not less. The fourth part of the bible is not
really amazing and there is nothing really new in it.


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