From: pierodancona@...
Date: 2006-12-10T18:15:05+09:00
Subject: Re: TeX and ruby


ishamid wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Dec 9, 9:50 am, pierodanc...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Essentially, TeX is just some trivial arithmetic.
>
> Not so, designing/implementing its algorithms provided more than one
> gradaate student with his doctorate :-)
>

Hey, I did not want to sound dismissive. I read
the TeXbook quite thoroughly (if you have heard
of pdfsync.sty, I wrote the first iteration of it :)
and consider TeX and the work behind it one
of the gems around here. That said, after all
this work, TeX's algorithms are now a bunch
of trivial arithmetic, and they should be easy
to replicate in any language...

Thank you for the pointer to luatex. I would have
liked so much something inside ruby but I guess
they also gave a thought to it and decided for
the better

Piero