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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] pascal, TeX
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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 13:02:24 -0500
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On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, George Michaelson wrote:

>
> > not to start a flameware (troff esentially has the same
> > problem), but TeX is a great education in Why To Hate
> > Macro Processors. sendmail does better, but at least with
> > TeX you can get something useful done at the same time.
> >
> > erik
>
> I think a macro processor remains a fundamentally good thing. Else
> how could Bourne have programmed his shell in Pascal?

ITYM Algol-68.