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Hah hah. Run TeX natively on iOS. Good one. :)

• chris_wot 14y ago
  There is something I've missed here... What is so funny about running TeX natively on iOS?
  • ch0wn 14y ago
    There was an article on HN last year: The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX for the iPad http://vallettaventures.tumblr.com/post/13124883568/the-price-of-a-messy-codebase-no-latex-for-the-ipad http://vallettaventures.tumblr.com/post/13124883568/the-pric...
  • vetinari 14y ago
    TeX is an interpreter. It can interpret the user supplied scripts. Interpreters than can run code supplied by user or downloaded from internet are verboten on iOS.
    • darkstalker 14y ago
      Put it on Cydia?
    • jahewson 14y ago
      This has not been true since late 2010, the rule is now that applications cannot interpret scripts downloaded from sources external to the app. Embedding an interpreter in an app is fine.
      • prodigal_erik 14y ago
        If this is at all useful, it can render a downloaded .tex document, which equates to running a script from an external source (because TeX macros are Turing-complete even if not convenient).
        • duaneb 14y ago
          Well, it's sandboxed interpretation. You can't really do much with TeX aside from maybe reading files from the filesystem.
        • jahewson 14y ago
          Yeah that's a good point.