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expeditious
17y ago
> Well... hopefully R6 will pull things together a bit. Do you mean "R7"? Because R6 seems to have actually done the opposite. > Personally I'm not a real fan of cpan. The qualilty is sort of hit and miss. The hit-or-miss quality is
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17y ago
> Are you talking about something like perl's cpan? Everyone wishes their language could have something analogous to the CPAN. But before you can have that you need some standardization and community agreement in place regarding how m
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17y ago
> lacks a large, vibrant community with mature libraries > too much variation among the various flavors of Scheme which fragments the community > lacks good language constructs for managing large software projects It seems that
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17y ago
> It's hard for me to imagine the "killer app" that can't be done on a platform that has a completely open web browser I don't want to write yet another web app. I want to write actual apps that run right on the device (or at least on
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expeditious
17y ago
The least of my complaints about LaTeX is how it looks . I don't mind the markup at all. Now, the complexity of the whole system, that's what I have a problem with.
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17y ago
CM is difficult on the eyes when you print it out with a laser printer. Thin lines within the glyphs are too thin. Otherwise, it's beautiful.
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17y ago
I used to use LaTeX (with AUCTeX) for writing medium-sized documents. AUCTeX is great, and made typing the required markup very easy. For a while I tried reading all my docs in pdf instead of html. After that I tried using the various latex