10 Jun
1998
10 Jun
'98
4:17 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Actually, no, it isn't. TeX was introduced (IIRC) in the early eighties.
And Knuth sidetracked onto it because he didn't like the way his still-
essential books on computer science had been typeset. It's actually a
real shame he never got back to continuing that series.
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
<> It should be different as Knuth's was written in C and tex is asm or pl
< ^^^^^^^^^^^^
<Since when? The source code for TeX that I have here, and the version
<that's printed in Volume B of 'Computers and Typesetting' is written in
<Web
Working versions (or pascal). I've never seen a web compiler.
Well, the standard (as in Knuth) TeX source is most definitely web. I
have it here.
Web is a combination of 2 languages, one for programming and one for
documentation. Running a .web file through tangle extracts the
programming language (and expands macros, etc). In the case of TeX, that
language is pascal. Of course you can then put it through p2c if you want
(in fact that's what you normally do on a unix box, but that doesn't mean
it's written in C).
Allison
This is getting rather far from classic computers, so I think I'll leave
it there.
-tony