Re: TeX pestilence

Michele Dondi <bik.mido@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:53:07 +0000, Timothy Murphy
<tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Making LaTeX to do the job it has been designed for is amazingly
hard.

I don't think anything in LaTeX is "amazingly hard".

You're seemingly refusing to understand that he's not talking about
*using* LaTeX, but *creating* LaTeX.

To be fair, this particular sentence was not phrased well at all by
me. While I am somewhat strained to believe this to be an honest
mistake in the context of the discussion, Timothy has consistently
never in this thread actually made a statement pertaining to TeX as a
_programming_ system, never mind that this was what he was responding
to from the get-go.

It would appear to me that he is somewhat of a creationist regarding
TeX/LaTeX: his discussion approach more or less assumes them as
God-given, and he seems to consider their apparent evolution past
their creation an uncalled-for insignificant detail, or at least
nothing where human intervention should be considered relevant. While
his thought patterns and discussion approach appear completely alien
and ridiculous to me, I can't rule out that he finds them perfectly
consistent and reasonable.

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