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It's always fascinating when someone building something yak shaves a project of major skill on the way. Both git and fossil would be notable on their own, but t
by renewiltord 3y ago
It's always fascinating when someone building something yak shaves a project of major skill on the way. Both git and fossil would be notable on their own, but the respective authors simply needed a tool for Linux and Sqlite.
Really raises the boundary for what a software engineer can do. Very inspiring.
TeX was also built for TAOCP. Crazy stuff. Really makes me want to write code. Love it.
- gregoriol 3y agoIt happens quite often actually, it is sometimes called a framework, can become a SaaS, ...
- eesmith 3y ago> TeX was also built for TAOCP. Crazy stuff. If you haven't yet, read "Donald Knuth - The Patron Saint of Yak Shaves" at https://yakshav.es/the-patron-saint-of-yakshaves/ https://yakshav.es/the-patron-saint-of-yakshaves/ For TAOCP Knuth also creates a new assembly language, for illustration purposes. TeX was written in WEB, a programming language Knuth made which transpiles to Pascal. It's based on literate programming, a programming paradigm Knuth introduced. And Knuth developed his own font, for use by TeX, along with a system to make fonts. Crazy stuff indeed!