type-ogre-aphy

Feb 26, 2009 00:30

oh Knuth, how I wish you had made TeX into a real programming language.

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dominika_kretek February 26 2009, 15:10:55 UTC
But it's Turing complete!!!

Seriously, though, if someone could do a complete, thorough, and correct job of redoing TeX's syntax so that it was modern and usable, it would be a gift to the world. And maybe people would stop using LaTeX.

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fancybred February 27 2009, 07:19:52 UTC
yeah, I should ask him about that sometime...after this ordeal is over...

Maybe it's a symptom of this mad-paced back-and-forth editing, but I'm finding my thesis growing into a giant piece of spaghetti code. And it's painful that every time I make a small change, I know I'm introducing lots of little bugs that I have to go through and fix manually, even though they're just simple type-checking bugs.

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gustavolacerda February 28 2009, 19:04:06 UTC
type-checking bugs?
so what kinds of types do you mean you'd like LaTeX to enforce?

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