Wildemar Wildenburger schrieb:
> Joachim Durchholz wrote:
>> And yes, it sucks in major ways.
>>
> Oh my God, I don't want to, but I just have to ask: Why?
First of all, irregularities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX#The_typesetting_system:
"[...]almost all of TeX's syntactic properties can be c
On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 00:48 +0200, Wildemar Wildenburger wrote:
> Byung-Hee HWANG wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 12:19 -0400, Lew wrote:
> > [something attackish]
> >
> > Well, you are making a personal attack, it's dangerous. I wish to see
> > only discussions about TeX ;;
> >
>
> On a python
Jürgen Exner wrote:
> Wildemar Wildenburger wrote:
>> Joachim Durchholz wrote:
>>> And yes, it [syntactically] sucks in major ways.
>>>
>> Oh my God, I don't want to, but I just have to ask: Why?
>
> Because TeX has nothing to do with either Perl, Python, Lisp, Java, or
> functional programming.
Byung-Hee HWANG wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 12:19 -0400, Lew wrote:
> [something attackish]
>
> Well, you are making a personal attack, it's dangerous. I wish to see
> only discussions about TeX ;;
>
On a python group?
Also: Lew won't see your post, he's on c.l.java.*
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Wildemar Wildenburger wrote:
> Joachim Durchholz wrote:
>> And yes, it sucks in major ways.
>>
> Oh my God, I don't want to, but I just have to ask: Why?
Because TeX has nothing to do with either Perl, Python, Lisp, Java, or
functional programming.
jue
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Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> And yes, it sucks in major ways.
>
Oh my God, I don't want to, but I just have to ask: Why?
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Lew wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
>> i have written ... No coherent argument,
Actually the modified title is wrong. It should be
The Xah Lee pestilence
Please see his posting history of off-topic random rambling for details.
Oh, and PLEASE
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On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 12:19 -0400, Lew wrote:
> Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> 4. Inargurated a massive collection of documents that are invalid
> >> HTML. (due to the programing moron's ingorance and need to idolize a
> >> leader, and TeX's inherent problem of being a typesetting system t
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:07:37 -0400, Lew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Xah Lee wrote:
>> i have written ... No coherent argument,
I've long killfiled XL to the effect that all of his threads are
ignored altogether, since the guy is "nice" enough to only take part
to his own rants, but occasionally
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 maj
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On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:30:51 -0400, George Neuner
wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:50:30 -0700, Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
>>5. This is arguable and trivial, but i think TeX judged as a computer
>>language in particular its synta
Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 4. Inargurated a massive collection of documents that are invalid
>> HTML. (due to the programing moron's ingorance and need to idolize a
>> leader, and TeX's inherent problem of being a typesetting system that
>> is unsuitable of representing any structure or
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:50:30 -0700, Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>TeX, in my opinion, has done massive damage to the computing world.
>
>i have written on this variously in emails. No coherent argument, but
>the basic thoughts are here:
>http://xahlee.org/cmaci/notation/TeX_pestilence.html
Xah Lee wrote:
> i have written ... No coherent argument,
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TeX, in my opinion, has done massive damage to the computing world.
i have written on this variously in emails. No coherent argument, but
the basic thoughts are here:
http://xahlee.org/cmaci/notation/TeX_pestilence.html
it's slightly repeatitous there. But i think i might summarize in gist
the fe
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