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> TeX is detrimental because it harbors ignorance of the structural content embodied in most math notations in most math fields. What TeX does is typesetting, a
by thefz 7y ago
> TeX is detrimental because it harbors ignorance of the structural content embodied in most math notations in most math fields. What TeX does is typesetting, as opposed to math expression encoding. In other words, what TeX does is pretty-printing.
It's like being angry at HTML because it's not a programming language.
- abhgh 7y agoYeah its a weird article ... the author accuses TeX of being a typesetting language, which is what TeX advertises itself as anyway.
- smitty1e 7y agoXah Lee has been on of the most outstanding trolls on the internet for decades. Look at the panache involved in telling Donald Knuth that his baby is ugly! In addition to writing highly useful articles on a range of subjects, Xah is a character that adds great flavor to the internet, and I'm grateful for his (often wildly obnoxious) rants. It's good to have someone remind us to review assumptions from time to time.
- coldtea 7y agoNo, it's like being angry at 90s style HTML because it's not semantic and mixes presentation and content in a soup. Which we should be.