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Re:The future of education is plain text by LunaSea on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @12:09PM (#14545841)
Because knowledge about maths is independent of computer and programming literacy.
Re:The future of education is plain text by catshirt on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @12:51PM (#14546249)
if we use a liberal definition of "computer and programming literacy", then it's just as much a requisite for math as it is TeX.

if we use a conservative definition of "computer and programming literacy", then it's not a requisite for either.

markup languages are not programming languages. most people have some familiarity with some markup language.