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by eru 6037 days ago
But - is it as beautiful?
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amichail 6037 days ago
Twitter is a greater conceptual leap over blogging than TeX is over troff.
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wglb 6037 days ago
Not really. Twitter is microblogging. TeX greatly expanded the quality and re-usability of very difficult typeset documents.
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eru 6037 days ago
Perhaps. Still, TeX feels like an accomplishment. (Though as a programming language it's close to horrible.)
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