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Re:TNT Is Not TeX by jakobe on Friday December 09, 2011 @08:22AM (#3333585)
The issue is not whether TeX is capable of the tasks it was designed to do. The point is that it struggles with the the tasks it is actually used for today.
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Re:TNT Is Not TeX by HilbertSpace on Friday December 09, 2011 @12:57PM (#3334702)
See

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3334504

For your:

"The issue is not whether TeX is capable of the tasks it was designed to do."

No, that is exactly the point.

Net, TeX won't slice bread. People who want to slice bread shouldn't use TeX. Simple.

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