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I agree, but I'm not sure if it's a psychological thing or not. For example, I became known in my QFT classes for doing homework on TeXmacs. I think it might ha
by noobermin 7y ago
I agree, but I'm not sure if it's a psychological thing or not. For example, I became known in my QFT classes for doing homework on TeXmacs. I think it might have very well to do with where you learned it first, for example, I never felt comfortable coding on paper and pen (although I did once in high school since I couldn't bring a laptop on the bus).
- mhh__ 7y agoI cannot work directly into TeX but I love fiddling around with it once I've done the work. When I'm slamming my head again a QFT textbook I feel like I need to work on paper so I don't lie to myself with the symbols (When I don't understand it yet) I plan my code on paper quite a lot, and actually quite enjoy talking about what I'm doing (Whiteboard or not) [I think some whiteboarding at interviews is a good thing]
- noobermin 7y agoOh don't misunderstand, I'm not that leet, texmacs is a TeX(like) wysiwyg with shortcuts inspired by TeX so it feels natural and is rather quick. One of the things apart from the familiarity I'm arguing is important is the symbols once on page looked more like what you'd see in a paper/book, so it was more immediately obvious when something looked "right" or didn't.