19 Nov
2011
19 Nov
'11
1:07 p.m.
On 11/19/2011 03:32 PM, Richard wrote:
Compare the number of known bugs in Microsoft Word and TeX.
"Crowds" shop at Wal*Mart too. That doesn't make it good. Another
thing that's vanishingly small is the world's current body of competent
software developers. Your persistent attack on one of the best-known
examples of extremely skilled programming is really turning into quite a
"smile and nod" experience. ;)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA
These are
considered outstanding expository pieces of work, and TeX and
METAFONT hardly lesser.
Yet here we are about 30 years after the fact and only an incredibly
tiny portion (vanishingly small, I'd say) of existing software has
adopted these "outsanding" methods. I'd say the wisdom of crowds has
pretty much ruled this a failure.