Falando em 100 anos, isto me fez lembrar da minha HP32SII (sucessora de uma HP41C, tendo convivido por algum tempo com uma HP11C), que carrego na minha mochila desde sempre, como as canetas, lapiseiras, ou como as chaves que carrego no bolso da calça. Dias atrás precisei trocar as baterias, que duraram pelo menos 10 anos, e descobri que elas custam menos de 5 reais. Quanto por cento da população que usa calculadora consegue usar uma HP? Será que existe alguma relação entre o uso de Latex e HP na intersecção das populações de usuários de calculadoras e editores? Eu às vezes prefiro fazer uma conta de cabeça, mesmo que aproximando, a ter que usar uma calculadora com notação infixada ... Também compete na lista dos "could last a hundred years"
Carlos Prolo On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 18:05:07 +0100, jean-yves beziau <beziau...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hoje é o aniversário do Donald Knuth > que nasceu dia 10 de Janeiro de 1938 > famoso pela invencao do TeX. > Vem aqui uma entrevista interessante do Leslie Lamport (Inventor do LaTex) > falando criticamente sobre Tex e Latex > > How (LA)TEX changed the face of Mathematics > http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/lamport-latex-interview.pdf > > Alguns extratos: > > Q; Is LATEX hard to use? > LL: It's easy to use if you're one of the 2% of the popula- > tion who thinks logically and can read an instruction manual. > The other 98% of the population would find > it very hard or impossible to use. > > Q: Any regrets about things you should have done better > when you "did it"? > LL: ... the biggest mistake I made was not in how I designed > LATEX, but in how I didn't design TEX. > > Q: Three LATEX mistakes that people should stop making? > LL: > 1. Worrying too much about formatting and not enough about content. > 2. Worrying too much about formatting and not enough about content. > 3. Worrying too much about formatting and not enough about content. > > Outros comentários do LL: > > LL: I expect the use of TEX and LATEX to die out. > However, a mathematician just assured me that there is no alternative for > math and > physics, and he expects TEX to survive the 100 years that Don predicted. > We'll see. > ... mathematicians, like all people, are extremely conservative. > For example, they still write proofs essentially the same way they've been > doing it > for centuries. > I believe I've demonstrated in > "How to Write a Proof", American Mathematical Monthly, 102-7, 1995, > pp.600-608 > that there's a better way. > But they are just as reluctant to try it as they are to try anything new. > > Leslie Lamport homepage: > http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/ > _______________________________________________ > Logica-l mailing list > Logica-l@dimap.ufrn.br > http://www.dimap.ufrn.br/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/logica-l _______________________________________________ Logica-l mailing list Logica-l@dimap.ufrn.br http://www.dimap.ufrn.br/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/logica-l
