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Christopher Dimech |
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Quote by Knuth |
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Wed, 14 Jul 2021 19:37:30 +0200 |
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 4:09 AM
> From: "Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor"
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Quote by Knuth
>
> Christopher Dimech wrote:
>
> >> There are no millions of programmers using "literate
> >> programming"...
> >
> > Mostly they are school children and some academics teaching
> > them.
>
> Teaching them what, exactly?
The literate programming thingies
> >> We should count LaTeX programmers and org-mode users,
> >> I think these are most of that population. I’m not even
> >> sure of what’s the count of programmers worldwide already
> >> so well… Millions could indeed be a great exageration.
> >
> > You should not count typesetting as programming.
> > Producing a document is not about computation
>
> LaTeX is domain-specific programming.
>
> > but a literary text, which by definition has to be a human
> > literate result. Scripting languages have also the
> > capability for human literate results.
>
> All general-purpose languages can do anything with computers,
> but often it is much better to use specific tools for
> a specific purpose, and LaTeX is one such tool.
>
> > There are about 16 million programmers in the world.
>
> OK?
Someone asked how many
> --
> underground experts united
> https://dataswamp.org/~incal
>
>
>
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