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Re:Outdated vs. Complete: In defense of apps that don’t need... by layer8 on Monday September 26, 2022 @04:56PM (#32988267)
Imagine TeX becoming unavailable because Knuth didn’t update it for three years.
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Re:Outdated vs. Complete: In defense of apps that don’t need... by neerajk on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @10:46AM (#32995953)
From the Tex Tuneup of 2021: "The TEX family of programs seems to be nice and healthy as it continues to approach perfection. Chances are nil that any documents produced by previous versions of TEX or METAFONT will be affected by the changes in the new versions"

This is how the Gods do programming :)

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