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Re:The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPad by thefre on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @05:43PM (#3267765)
So the next hot article will be "OMG a GNU/Linux distribution has a messy code base"?

Once you are talking about a multiple GB system, of course it's messy. Except it is actually a very poor choosing to describe the situation. E.g. mixing multiples programming langages in a big system has nothing messy, it would even be a HUGE warning not to encounter multiple programming langages in such a huge system.

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Re:The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPad by dextorious on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @06:18AM (#3269649)
"""Once you are talking about a multiple GB system, of course it's messy. """

Only there's no need for a typesetting engine + layout templates + graphing, math, bibliography etc add-ons, to ever be a "multiple GB system".

It just carries too much legacy garbage.

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