Of course these were people who weren't aware that TeX as a programming language was design to be Turing-minimal or something, with ZERO support for even the most rudimentary abstract constructions! Like programming in Malbolge.
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It doesn't help that (sure, sound historical reasons...) none of the conventions are in any way related to the rest of the tech world. OK, I need a math symbol here -- what's the unicode for that? WTF do you mean it doesn't use Unicode? 1/
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Knuth's Law: All projects devolve into developing a new typesetting system.
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lol yeah
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I think what discourages this impulse is knowing that it was the best don knuth could come up with
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Yes, maybe! The fundamental idea of a programmable typesetting engine is brilliant. The programming language he designed… this wasn’t his strong point. The frameworks other people have built using it… about those, the less said, the better.
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