Knuth made an excellent point, maybe in _Coders At Work_ about literate
programming and why it didn't catch on: in general, about 1 out of 20
people can be a really good programmer.  In general, one of 20 people can
be a really good writer.  These talents are largely uncorrelated.

Sure, being competent at either is a teachable skill.  But no one wants to
read either a program or a narrative written by someone who's merely OK at
it.

Adam

On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 7:20 PM David Arnold <davida@pobox.com> wrote:

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>  > 2.  Drop DVI?  Are you kidding me?  Although PDF may be popular now,
>>  > that may not be the case 20 years from now.  A device-independent
>>  > format is what is needed, and that's what DVI is.  TeX is guaranteed
>>  > to produce the exact same output 100 years from now.
>>
>> And .PDF isn't?
>>
>
> No.  It isn't.  It is an Adobe product.
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> Check out ISO 32000-2:2020.
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> I think it’s ok in 2022 to say that PDF has escaped Adobe and is an open
> standard, suitable for long-life documents, etc.
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