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LaTeX was written by a famous computer scientist to write a computer science book. Yes, mathematicians love it. But computer scientists were first there.
by btilly 4y ago
LaTeX was written by a famous computer scientist to write a computer science book.
Yes, mathematicians love it. But computer scientists were first there.
- henrydark 4y agoInteresting, do you think Lamport doesn't think of himself also as a mathematician? How about Knuth?
- btilly 4y agoBoth do a lot of mathematics. When they got into computers, mathematics was the standard route in. All of their most famous work is in computer science.
- IshKebab 4y agoMaybe a useful skill but it's not a CS skill so it's slightly odd to teach it. Same with Emacs tbh. Students could easily use VSCode (and it would probably be better for a CS class).
- dustymcp 4y agoI always laugh abit about this, the purists are just insane, yes you can do things in one way forever but you dont have to.