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Linotype didn’t come out of nowhere either. Printers used to cast type manually. And don’t just gloss over TeX’s astounding correctness. It’s a truly remarkabl
by User23 2y ago
Linotype didn’t come out of nowhere either. Printers used to cast type manually.
And don’t just gloss over TeX’s astounding correctness. It’s a truly remarkable feat of the human intellect to design something so large with so few errors.
- stevesimmons 2y agoFor those who haven't seen Knuth's own analysis of his errors while writing TeX, it's well worth reading his 1989 article "The Errors of TeX" [1] and glancing through the full chronological list of errors [2]. [1] https://yurichev.com/mirrors/knuth1989.pdf https://yurichev.com/mirrors/knuth1989.pdf [2] https://ctan.math.utah.edu/ctan/tex-archive/info/knuth-pdf/errata/errorlog.pdf https://ctan.math.utah.edu/ctan/tex-archive/info/knuth-pdf/e...