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• coherent_domain@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I thought Knuth is the developer of TeX, not LaTeX… That being said, I am not overly fond of the things coming out of Stanford in that generation, like lisp, TeX, and LaTeX.

  (because of anonymity, I am gonna say some bold things) These tools feels very much to me a product of west-coast PL, they feel hacky, way too flexible and end up doing nothing well, and definitely born out of the whole “hacker culture”.

  Maybe Scheme and Racket is better, but I never spend the time to look into them.

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  • sobchak@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I assumed LaTex is a descendant of TeX. I’m not really well informed about the history of this kind of stuff, which is why I found it interesting.

    Your POV is also interesting, as I always kind of held “hacker culture,” in pretty high regard. But, now that I think about it, I see the appeal of rigorous, well studied things, built very deliberately, on strong foundations. I guess that’s why I instinctively like things like Haskell, the kind of ML with provable bounds, information theory, etc. I’ve never messed around with Lisp-like languages, but I remember my ML-focused advisor speaking of them from when symbolic-AI and self-modifying code was all the rage.

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