From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Boyd Roberts Subject: Re: [9fans] off topic: troff book To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Message-id: <00e901c07809$9a3e8040$8692fea9@coma> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <200101051929.TAA04968@whitecrow.demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 04:53:38 +1100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 459a54b8-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 From: Steve Kilbane > > Hold on. TeX and LaTeX have their good and bad points, but exactly > how did they screw up in ways that troff didn't? Off the top of my > head, the only thing that comes to mind is that troff would read > from stdin, while tex would insist on a named file, getting in the > way of pipelining. But that's more a style of use, rather than of > the systems themselves. they could read /dev/drum for all i care. they are _ghastly_. my 'lamport was a screwhead' comes from my two years at PRL. lame defense, but i'm entitled to my opinon. if tex was so great, where was the need for latex?