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I recently received news from a friend close to, well sort of close
to, 'Knuth' (must be said with a tone of awe and respect). As the writer
of teX, the slave/guts of LATEx [1], he was asked why he went through
all the trouble to re-invent the wheel - after all what about troff ?
His reply:
"Well... being an old Cobol programmer - I missed having to type 3
times the code to get the same results as with traditional software [2]."
[1] - LAtEx can be mispronounced as the non-oil based paint, but it is not
as easy to apply.
[2] - even most lAtEx code is a bit \begin{comment} wordy \end{comment}.
We now know better:
Real programmers use troff. Business students use lATEx/CoBOl.
--
Joe Miller Michigan State University
An old troff user who's heard too much ruh ha ha about lAteX.
(From the "Rest" of RHF)
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