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Re:Helping my students overcome command-line bullshittery by mcguire on Friday October 10, 2014 @12:57PM (#8438792)
The "killer app" for most CS researchers is indeed Microsoft Word.
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Re:Helping my students overcome command-line bullshittery by pbsd on Friday October 10, 2014 @01:03PM (#8438823)
Nonsense. The standard writing tool in mathematics and computer science is LaTeX, which has plenty of bullshittery of its own. Most researchers will generally be suspicious of a Word-produced paper, since it usually will come from crackpots.
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Re:Helping my students overcome command-line bullshittery by mcguire on Friday October 10, 2014 @01:32PM (#8439008)
I was actually quoting Philip Grenspun there[1].

[1] http://books.google.com/books?id=Gb6vumaGwJAC&pg=PA47&lpg=PA...

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Re:Helping my students overcome command-line bullshittery by pjene on Friday October 10, 2014 @01:12PM (#8438890)
the standard writing tool in mathematics and computer science is the pencil. Or pen, if you are feeling cocky.

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/

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