Re: [Texmacs-dev] major barrier to adoption

[Amir Michail]

On Jan 10, 2008 5:17 PM, Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 05:12:33PM -0500, Amir Michail wrote:
> > One of the major barriers to adoption of TeXmacs is not technical at
> > all -- but rather has to do with peer pressure.
> >
> > In the CS theory community for example, you are considered clueless if
> > you do not use TeX -- period!  There is little interest in checking
> > out TeXmacs because -- even if it is better than TeX -- your peers
> > would look down on you if you like it!  I don't know if this is out of
> > respect for Knuth or because the community is very conservative or
> > what.
> >
> > It's really quite amazing though.
>
> Yes, this kind of discussion is tiring me too.
> Anyway, we'll just continue our job, adoption or not.

Incidentally, did you get any feedback on TeXmacs from Knuth?

Amir

>
> Best wishes, Joris
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