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> 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
by 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!