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From: Steve Kilbane <steve@whitecrow.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri,  5 Jan 2001 19:29:59 +0000
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Boyd boyded thus:
> knuth had lost his mind [tex].  lamport was a screwhead [latex].
> 
> gimme raw troff anyday...

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.

steve