Re: [Texmacs-dev] major barrier to adoption

[Amir Michail]

On Jan 11, 2008 1:29 PM, Amir Michail <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Jan 11, 2008 12:26 PM, Jeremy Henty <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 04:32:24PM +0100, Henri Lesourd wrote:
> >
> > > Less and less people care about TeX, in fact, but it takes time.
> >
> > Knuth's  70th birthday has  prompted many  maths/CS bloggers  to write
> > about him  and TeX, and it's  striking how many of  them say (roughly)
> > "TeX is *horrible*, but nothing else is remotely good enough".
> >
> > Unfortunately people  often assume that TeXmacs is  just another front
> > end  to  TeX  (see  eg.   my  attempt to  correct  this  confusion  at
> > <URL:http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=303#comment-16572>).
> >
>
> Also see:
>
> http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=212#comment-10474

And see point #1 here (provides evidence of peer pressure):

http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=304

Amir

>
> Even after correcting any confusion on the matter, they would still
> not be interested.  Besides the style file problem, I think it's a
> combination of peer pressure, respect for Knuth, and doubts that the
> algorithms used in TeXmacs are just as good as the ones written by a
> Turing award winner.
>
> Amir
>
>
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jeremy Henty
> >
> >
> >
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