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Re:The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPad by thefre on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @05:36PM (#3267739)
> This dream lasted a few days until we discovered that TeX, the typesetting engine underlying LaTeX, isn’t written in C. TeX is written in WEB, Donald Knuth’s “literate” programming language.

Seriously, they discovered that after starting the project???

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