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- From: preston@miranda.cs.rice.edu (Preston Briggs)
- Subject: Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms
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- Organization: Rice University, Houston
- References: <1992Oct22.163955.12161@newshost.lanl.gov> <GLEW.92Nov4072629@pdx007.intel.com> <MHCOFFIN.92Nov5075939@tolstoy.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 17:09:34 GMT
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- mhcoffin@tolstoy.uwaterloo.ca (Michael Coffin) writes:
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- >I don't disagree that occasionally gotos are cleaner than the
- >available alternatives, but I wouldn't call Knuth an arbiter of good
- >taste in programming style. On the one hand, TeX the program is
- >clearly written and contains some beautiful algorithms. On the
- >other hand, TeX the language is a wretched mess---it's almost
- >impossible to write clear code in TeX. So I'd say Knuth's record on
- >programming style is very mixed.
-
- I disagree. It's easier to read and write programs in TeX than
- in any other typesetting language around!
-
- Isn't your complaint similar to saying
-
- Makita builds terrible tools because this power planer
- makes a terrible lathe.
-
- Preston Briggs
-