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I'll throw two domain specific language (families) into the mix, that are psuedo-dead although not really dead. Although amstex and latex are healthy (and late
by VLM 10y ago
I'll throw two domain specific language (families) into the mix, that are psuedo-dead although not really dead.
Although amstex and latex are healthy (and latex is about 40 years old) I would argue that very few indeed are writing in raw bare macro-free package-free tex, just bare totally raw tex. I'm sure it happens... rarely.
Another psuedo-dead is postscript. In the 80s there was a famous EE pushing the idea of sending your code and data to your postscript laserprinter as a batch frontend sorta and let the laserprinter interpret the postscript and do the calculations for your smith chart, not merely print your bitmap containing a smith chart or whatever. That idea of postscript as a general purpose application language, although infinitely cool, never went much of anywhere.
- simonbyrne 10y agoAnd of course, there is PSTricks, which combines them both, letting you solve ODEs in your document: https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-ode?lang=en https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/p...