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I learned TeX back in 1984 because I wanted a word processor which would put footnotes at the bottom of the page.
by dhosek 10y ago
I learned TeX back in 1984 because I wanted a word processor which would put footnotes at the bottom of the page.
- greglindahl 10y agoTeX was and is available on a large number of OSes. I was very happy being to run a 'large' TeX instance on my Atari ST with 1 MB of ram, it could easily typeset my undergraduate thesis.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoIndeed. TeX later moved to Pascal, but was originally written in SAIL for use on WAITS. GLS ported it to ITS (the first ever port of TeX), and also was responsible for lobbying Knuth to make it Turing-Complete. Man, is there any part of modern computing that doesn't have GLS's fingerprints on it?
- more_original 10y agoFor anyone else wondering: GLS = Guy L. Steele (this took me quite a while)
- TrumpVoter12345 10y agoI learned TeX because it was fucking gorgeous.
- chris_wot 10y agoWho is this Gorgeous? And what does it have to do with TeX?
- jhoechtl 10y agoWho is general Failure? And why is he reading my disk?
- chris_wot 10y agoNow now, you mught get scolded by an admin! Nothing quite like a double standard around here. The poster makes a valueless comment, I make a mild joke and the original poster is ignored. P.S. I laughed at your response :-)
- sctb 10y agoPlease don't post like this here.
- kps 10y agotroff (which is what would have been used here) can do footnotes.