From: cym224@gmail.com (Nemo)
Subject: [TUHS] [groff] Brian Kernighan on the evoution of eqn, pic, grap into troff
Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 10:54:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJfiPzy8pSDnkwPevOVFHUNVP8Q046TARk2O1S6xN8wwhwdo=A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180508041157.C9ED9156E510@mail.bitblocks.com>
On 8 May 2018 at 00:11, Bakul Shah <bakul at bitblocks.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 07 May 2018 17:39:58 -0700 Jon Steinhart <jon at fourwinds.com> wrote:
>>
>> IMHO, the tex language is too ugly. I much prefer troff.
[...]
> Though I vastly prefer TeX/LaTeX/XeLaTeX over troff (unlike
> most folks on this list)
[...]
Oh, this has the makings of another Mygol vs Yourtran flame war.
As an inflamatory datum point, I was a grad student when TeX was
installed and the secretaries all learnt TeX. When LaTeX came in, we
all dumped *roff.
N.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-08 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-06 2:29 Doug McIlroy
2018-05-06 3:36 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-05-08 0:29 ` George Michaelson
2018-05-08 0:39 ` Jon Steinhart
2018-05-08 2:17 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-08 2:43 ` Jon Steinhart
2018-05-08 4:11 ` Bakul Shah
2018-05-08 14:54 ` Nemo [this message]
2018-05-08 16:42 ` Paul Winalski
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