Hoje é o aniversário do Donald Knuth que nasceu dia 10 de Janeiro de 1938 famoso pela invencao do TeX. Vem aqui uma entrevista interessante do Leslie Lamport (Inventor do LaTex) falando criticamente sobre Tex e Latex
How (LA)TEX changed the face of Mathematics http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/lamport-latex-interview.pdf Alguns extratos: Q; Is LATEX hard to use? LL: It's easy to use if you're one of the 2% of the popula- tion who thinks logically and can read an instruction manual. The other 98% of the population would find it very hard or impossible to use. Q: Any regrets about things you should have done better when you "did it"? LL: ... the biggest mistake I made was not in how I designed LATEX, but in how I didn't design TEX. Q: Three LATEX mistakes that people should stop making? LL: 1. Worrying too much about formatting and not enough about content. 2. Worrying too much about formatting and not enough about content. 3. Worrying too much about formatting and not enough about content. Outros comentários do LL: LL: I expect the use of TEX and LATEX to die out. However, a mathematician just assured me that there is no alternative for math and physics, and he expects TEX to survive the 100 years that Don predicted. We'll see. ... mathematicians, like all people, are extremely conservative. For example, they still write proofs essentially the same way they've been doing it for centuries. I believe I've demonstrated in "How to Write a Proof", American Mathematical Monthly, 102-7, 1995, pp.600-608 that there's a better way. But they are just as reluctant to try it as they are to try anything new. Leslie Lamport homepage: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/ _______________________________________________ Logica-l mailing list [email protected] http://www.dimap.ufrn.br/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/logica-l
