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Re:The lingua franca of LaTeX by teddyh on Saturday May 25, 2019 @12:25PM (#20009847)
What you might be (mis-)remembering is Eric S. Raymond’s description of the production of The New Hacker's Dictionary printed book:

http://catb.org/jargon/html/personality.html

Re:The lingua franca of LaTeX by Wistar on Saturday May 25, 2019 @02:58PM (#20010606)
You are absolutely correct! That is precisely what I mis-remembe... er, mis-attributed.