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>> Why do CS doctoral candidates have such a fascination with typesetting? Probably because Donald Knuth created TeX and Leslie Lamport created LaTeX. Two of
by thesuperbigfrog 1y ago
>> Why do CS doctoral candidates have such a fascination with typesetting?
Probably because Donald Knuth created TeX and Leslie Lamport created LaTeX.
Two of the greatest minds in Computer Science created the tools and used them to write papers and articles that are beautiful.
Elegant ideas presented beautifully make reading and writing papers a nicer experience.
- jwr 1y agoDonald Knuth. Please.
- thesuperbigfrog 1y agoCorrected. Thank you. Autocorrect incorrected it for me.
- ykonstant 1y ago>Autocorrect incorrected it for me. I am saving this entire sequence for later use.
- rrgok 1y agoIt seems the grammar of the language was an after thought... It amazes me that he spent so much time perfecting the laying out algorithms that he could not come up with a sane language.