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TeX is written in WEB, a "literate programming" language designed by Knuth, which a pre-processor turns into Pascal. There should be nothing inherently slow ab
by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago
TeX is written in WEB, a "literate programming" language designed by Knuth, which a pre-processor turns into Pascal. There should be nothing inherently slow about Pascal. In practice, it's compiled using "web2c" which does generate C code.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEB http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEB