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Well, he took a detour in writing TAOCP to invent TeX, because he felt other typesetting solutions were inadequate. So not surprising he uses plain TeX still. M
by ams6110 10y ago
Well, he took a detour in writing TAOCP to invent TeX, because he felt other typesetting solutions were inadequate. So not surprising he uses plain TeX still. Most people prefer LaTeX becase plain TeX is rather more primitive -- for the same reason most people would choose C or a higher level language over assembly language for programming.
- marvy 10y ago> most people would choose C or a higher level language over assembly language for programming And the inventor of TeX is not most people, and decided to invent an assembly language for his book, rather than using a high level language.