TeX, in my opinion, has done massive damage to the computing world. i have written on this variously in emails. No coherent argument, but the basic thoughts are here: http://xahlee.org/cmaci/notation/TeX_pestilence.html
it's slightly repeatitous there. But i think i might summarize in gist the few fundanmental issues, all sterm from just the first one: 1. A typesetting system per se, not a mathematical expressions representation system. 2. The free nature, like cigeratte given to children, contaminated the entire field of math knowledge representation into 2 decades of stagnation. 3. Being a typesetting system, brainwashed entire generation of mathematicians into micro-spacing doodling. 4. Inargurated a massive collection of documents that are invalid HTML. (due to the programing moron's ingorance and need to idolize a leader, and TeX's inherent problem of being a typesetting system that is unsuitable of representing any structure or semantics) 5. This is arguable and trivial, but i think TeX judged as a computer language in particular its syntax, on esthetical grounds, sucks in major ways. Btw, a example of item 4 above, is Python's documentation. Fucking asses and holes. Xah [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://xahlee.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
