Re: [Dev-luatex] Modifying the LuaTeX Engine

Hans Hagen skribis:

actually i've heard Don say (at an ntg QA session long ago) that he was surprised that there were no more fundamental extensions like pdftex (at that time upcoming)

TeX was written in Pascal instead of C, and so there didn't end up being IconTeX in the 1980s instead of LuaTeX in the 2000s. :) C ended up being what Pascal had been expected to become, circa 1980.