On Thursday, October 14, 2021 at 6:45:46 PM UTC+1 Edward K. Ream wrote:
> The web-to-outline script converts the sources for Knuth's TeX system to
> an outline. The script assumes the file is in ~/tex.web.
>
> The script works, but imo *nothing* can make up for the sorry state of
> programming in 1984 :-) Not outlines, not typesetting.
>
>
Hi Edward
I'm curious as to what you mean by this. Are you referring to the design of
the TeX language?
If so ... having some a moderate amount under TeX back in the day, I tend
to agree.
Some of the design is obviously due to the target use, of typesetting
words. But I
have more than once wondered what would have happened if 'TeX' had been
written in
something like Python (which came much later, of course)...
J^n
> So this script is just a toy. Still, I'm happy I wrote it. It was natural
> to do this after working on the python-to-typescript command. The script
> illustrates how easy it is to use patterns to organize programs.
>
> Edward
>
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