Re: Dates for TeX and LaTeX

[Herbert Voss]

John Levon wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 06:49:26PM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote:
> 
> 
>>TeX first published version: 1977
>>
> 
> so is tex.ac.uk FAQ wrong ? Are you sure about this ?


no

> 
> When should the docs say that Knuth created TeX ?


because there is no "official" version of the first
TeX. Knuth started in 1970 and it took nearly ten years
until the first TeX was "bugfree" ...
So all dates after 1977 until 1982 (second version)
maybe all right.

Herbert




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