Jonathan Fine wrote:
Hans Hagen wrote:
well, you made a remark and david's responded, so the discussion is now two mails long
anyhow, if it's so off topic (and david's mail was quite on-the-topic that you started), then why did you made your remark in the first place;
To answer your question, briefly.
In my view, my remark (on proliferation of pseudo-TeXs) was relevant and David's remark (on worship of Donald Knuth) was not.
well, one way of reading davids remark is "there are folks out there who try to reason and talk on behalf of Don Knuth without knowing his real opinions" 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); also, there is a difference between (say) 2^4 fundamental different tex variants and 2^32 confusingly slightly unsimilar ones Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------