Sergei Organov wrote: > Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:12:58 +0200, Benjamin Niemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: >> >>>That's actually the versioning scheme of TeX, currently being at 3.141592 >> >> <eeek> My last exposure to TeX was some 15 odd years ago; and even >>then it was just rudimentary stuff fed through LaTeX. > > It's total nonsense as LaTeX is a bunch of macros written in TeX the > language. If you meant TeX the interpreter of the TeX the language (a > program), then it's total nonsense again, as interpreter is not > (usually) fed through anything.
I'm pretty sure he meant that his last exposure to TeX was writing rudimentary stuff that he was feeding through LaTeX. > Latex the program just loads LaTeX macros into the TeX interpreter > before the document to be processed, so one may say LaTeX is fed through > TeX, but not vise versa. > > Anyway, it's unfair to speak of one of the most wonderful pieces of > software ever written in such a tone. Judging tone through email is error prone. Please try not to imagine insults where there are none. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
