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This is a good point, the title is wrong! Knuth named it TeX, with an 'out if kilter' e, to distinguish it from TEX, the Text EXecutive programming language de
by nanna 6y ago
This is a good point, the title is wrong!
Knuth named it TeX, with an 'out if kilter' e, to distinguish it from TEX, the Text EXecutive programming language developed by Honeywell. (Knuth, The TeXbook, p. 1)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Executive_Programming_Language https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Executive_Programming_L...
- Someone 6y agoReading https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bams/1183544082 https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bams/1183544082 and https://www.saildart.org/TEXDR.AFT%5B1,DEK%5D1 https://www.saildart.org/TEXDR.AFT%5B1,DEK%5D1, Knuth originally named it TEX and later renamed it to TeX.