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comp1927
4086 days ago
Latex's author already prove it wrong
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth
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gamegoblin
4086 days ago
Knuth did TeX. LaTeX was Leslie Lamport. LaTex is short for Lamport TeX.
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zaroth
4086 days ago
Quite the exclusive clique they've got there.
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isomorphic
4086 days ago
I grant your point, but that's a bit like saying Einstein was a good physicist.
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raldi
4086 days ago
Prove what wrong?
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isomorphic
4086 days ago
I think comp1927 means Knuth proves that one can get better with age. Which is a fine point, but Donald Knuth is a difficult lead to follow.
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switch_bro
4086 days ago
Keep in mind that Knuth is not a software engineer - he makes his living as a tenured professor at Stanford (these days professor emeritus).
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