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Times have changed. We didn't have laptops in classes ... laptops didn't exist. And I wrote my PhD in TeX. Not LaTeX ... that hadn't been invented.
by ColinWright 3y ago
Times have changed. We didn't have laptops in classes ... laptops didn't exist.
And I wrote my PhD in TeX. Not LaTeX ... that hadn't been invented.
- dctoedt 3y ago> Times have changed ... I wrote my PhD in TeX. Not LaTeX ... that hadn't been invented. Brings to mind when I first learned TOPS-20 Emacs in law school (long story), circa 1980-81: A few of the CS grad students tolerantly looked down on Emacs as a crutch for newbies, because any real programmer would use TECO instead .... (IIRC, that version of Emacs was written as a collection of TECO macros.) Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/378/ https://xkcd.com/378/
- OldGuyInTheClub 3y agoNo laptops in my era, either. I managed to do my thesis in LaTeX only because a student in another department made a stylesheet to the expected format. Figures and captions were a struggle back then. But, we were 'appy in them days, though we wuz poor.