From: Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
Date: 2002-10-13T23:37:00+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: English

On Sunday 13 October 2002 3:54 am, William Djaja Tjokroaminata wrote:
> Well, I have this story.  This is just a story.
>
> A university professor was going to have a joint proposal with a company
> on a technical study on a next generation satellite system.  A manager of
> the company asked the professor to contribute some input on the
> proposal.  So the professor sent the manager a Latex document containing a
> bunch of equations.  The manager was mad because he could not
> simply combine the Latex document into his Microsoft Word document.  Even
> after some effort that eventually resulted in the inclusion of the Latex
> document in the MS Word, the manager was still mad because the equations
> did not say anything to him; the manager wanted something that he and the
> people whom they were sending the proposal to could understand and
> appreciate.  But for the professor, equations were the best way to express
> ideas as equations were very concise and did not result in any ambiguity.
>
> That's it.  It is just a story.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill

His equations probably used just single character variables and no comments : 
-)