From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@strakt.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] pascal, TeX
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 19:11:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C18EF44.38244A15@strakt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28022.1008266218@apnic.net>
George Michaelson wrote:
> I think a macro processor remains a fundamentally good thing. Else
> how could Bourne have programmed his shell in Pascal?
Bourne programmed his shell in SHELLGOL; one of the true ghastly
abuses of the preprocessor:
IF foo == bar
THEN
baz();
ELSE
boom();
FI
And the only way to modify the Bourne shell was to stick with the
SHELLGOL, because at least it would maintain a consistant style.
I think laTeX is the definitive answer to why TeX is a poor
piece of software.
Write TeX or laTeX is like writing PostSript and I don't want
to write any of them. troff, for all it's faults, I prefer.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-13 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-13 17:38 erik quanstrom
2001-12-13 17:51 ` Howard Trickey
2001-12-14 10:15 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-12-13 17:56 ` George Michaelson
2001-12-13 18:02 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-13 18:09 ` George Michaelson
2001-12-13 18:11 ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
2001-12-13 18:18 ` George Michaelson
2001-12-13 18:21 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-14 7:19 ` paurea
2001-12-14 8:07 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-12-14 17:04 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-12-13 18:55 ` Martin Harriss
2001-12-13 21:20 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-12-14 10:15 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-12-18 9:47 ` Chet Ramey
2001-12-14 0:39 ` Dan Cross
2001-12-13 19:02 forsyth
2001-12-14 10:14 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-12-14 17:37 ` D De Villiers
2001-12-17 10:14 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-12-14 1:42 geoff
2001-12-14 17:40 forsyth
2001-12-17 10:15 ` Ralph Corderoy
2001-12-14 17:59 bwc
2001-12-14 18:03 rob pike
2001-12-14 17:43 ` Lucio De Re
2001-12-14 18:09 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-12-14 18:22 ` Andrey A Mirtchovski
2001-12-16 19:41 ` Andrew Simmons
2001-12-17 10:16 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-12-17 10:14 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-12-17 10:16 ` Wladimir Mutel
2001-12-17 8:29 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2001-12-18 0:37 okamoto
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