Re:Donald Knuth – The Patron Saint of Yak Shaves (2017)
by gjvc on Sunday January 09, 2022 @07:02AM
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Not only is this staggering to think about in terms of the Herculean effort required, but what's even more amazing is the quality of the finished output of the system, unmatched to this day.
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Re:Donald Knuth – The Patron Saint of Yak Shaves (2017)
by jhgb on Sunday January 09, 2022 @01:01PM
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At least systems were smaller then and much better documented, so the effort was at least well supported. Perhaps the quality is correlated with that since you weren't able to squeeze quantity into your work anyway, so your efforts had to go into quality.
Re:Donald Knuth – The Patron Saint of Yak Shaves (2017)
by GiovanniP on Monday January 10, 2022 @12:41PM
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> what's even more amazing is the quality of the finished output of the system, unmatched to this day.
If you are referring to the output of TeX, according to Joris van der Hoeven it is matched and surpassed by TeXmacs