Re:45 years since its creation. The C language still very po...
by simonbyrne on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @04:12PM
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And of course, there is PSTricks, which combines them both, letting you solve ODEs in your document:
https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/p...
Although amstex and latex are healthy (and latex is about 40 years old) I would argue that very few indeed are writing in raw bare macro-free package-free tex, just bare totally raw tex. I'm sure it happens... rarely.
Another psuedo-dead is postscript. In the 80s there was a famous EE pushing the idea of sending your code and data to your postscript laserprinter as a batch frontend sorta and let the laserprinter interpret the postscript and do the calculations for your smith chart, not merely print your bitmap containing a smith chart or whatever. That idea of postscript as a general purpose application language, although infinitely cool, never went much of anywhere.