On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Frank E Harrell Jr <f.harr...@vanderbilt.edu> wrote: > Ted I can't resist offering my $.02, which is that I'm puzzled why LaTeX, > being free, flexible, and powerful, is used only by millions of people and > not tens of millions.
I think it's the whole geek/suit divide thing. Back when only geeks had computers we had LaTeX, and FORTRAN, and S, and Unix (and VAX/VMS). But then the suits thought 'hey, we can make money out of this', and computers started working their way into offices. And geeks didn't like offices. So we left the suits to sort out their own software. And they begat Windows, and Windows begat Word, and secretaries did type things in and administrators did write VB Macros. And the geeks did cringe, but were too busy playing with Linux and developing the WWW in their labs to actually go and do anything about it. And then the suits did discover the WWW and thought 'hey, we can make money out of this'... Barry -- blog: http://geospaced.blogspot.com/ web: http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings web: http://www.rowlingson.com/ twitter: http://twitter.com/geospacedman pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacedman ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
