From: Lothar Scholz Date: 2004-08-31T21:48:30+09:00 Subject: Re: Typos (Was: performance comparison) Hello David, DAB> teTeX is a TeX distribution. LaTeX is a package of macros written in DAB> TeX. I don't think teTeX is relevant here; you can't blame people who DAB> want to use software for packaging and distributing it :-) Sorry you missunderstand something. I don't blame anyone. I'm just building and defending a chain or arguments to prove my opinion against a so called general purpose programming process theory - literate programming. DAB> When you use LaTeX, you are using TeX. There is nothing more "real" DAB> about using TeX without macros -- in fact, I don't think it's possible DAB> to get much done that way. (I suppose you could inline everything, DAB> but that was never the goal of TeX.) I know this. But the question was is TeX still under development. Maybe i'm wrong but i doubt this. The many many macro packages out there are under heavy development. Sure. But are whey written not only Tex but also CWeb applications ? We were talking in this thread (a long time ago) about the argument if TeX is a valid example that the literate programming process works, or better is able to be maintained in programs that change. I doubt that, others told me that TeX is an "real world" example. From the version numbering (how close is the version number now compared to the euler number ?) i simply don't think that TeX is developed anymore. Are still feature added ? Again to the core, not to the 3rd party programs or macro packages. And so my argument is that this is not valid example that the literate programming modell works. But i think everybody simply lost interest in the original question. -- Best regards, emailto: scholz at scriptolutions dot com Lothar Scholz http://www.ruby-ide.com CTO Scriptolutions Ruby, PHP, Python IDE 's