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- From: mbk@caffeine.engr.utk.edu (Matt Kennel)
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- Subject: Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer
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- Date: 20 Mar 1996 16:50:05 GMT
- Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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- Larry Baker (leb@sdt.com) wrote:
- : Joachim Durchholz wrote:
- : > ... TeX as a language is a nightmare, even if it is the best system
- : > available for automatic mathematical typesetting.
-
- : It was a WHOLE LOT better than 'troff,' which was the only
- : viable alternative at the time. Personally, given the choice
- : between TeX and troff, as a page-layout langauge, TeX wins
- : hands down.
-
- TeX as typesetting algorithms is brilliant, TeX as markup language
- sucks. I think it shows exactly what is bad with text-substituting
- macro langauges.
-
- Instead, TeX 'programs' should have been some sort of simple but
- clean lisp.
-
- : Larry
- : leb@sdt.com
-