George Neuner schrieb: >> 5. This is arguable and trivial, but i think TeX judged as a computer >> language in particular its syntax, on esthetical grounds, sucks in >> major ways. > > No one except you thinks TeX is a "computer language".
But it is. It's Turing-complete. And yes, it sucks in major ways. But no, I don't hold that against Knuth. It was designed in days when domain-specific languages didn't have a roughly standardized syntax. (Truth remains truth, regardless of who's upholding it.) Regards, Jo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
