On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:44:03AM +0800, Andy Sy wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote: > > > > > Gee, if TeX is to C as LaTeX is to C++, then PostScript is the assembly > > > language both of these languages compile into. :) > > More like language translation. PostScript is quite > high level. >
If you think of it from a document processing perspective, compared to LaTeX, PostScript IS very low level, and can get quite hairy. Who would be insane enough to write a whole term paper in raw PS? > > is too messy when built-up using MathML. Why was MathML so badly > > designed? Why didn't they include the TeX people in the MathML group? > > > > PMana > > It is my opinion that most all of the XML-based specs are > quite lame! Even SVG, notwithstanding the fact that the Batik > renderer itself is pretty cool, is a very verbose spec that > takes way too much space to describe simple stuff. Don't even > get me started on the terrible XML manipulation APIs like DOM > and XSLT. > As usual, it's the design by committee effect. XML itself and XHTML/CSS are the only current products of the W3C that I can name that don't suffer from this illness. The other XML-based standards they've produced are as excessively verbose and ugly as SGML/DSSSL and other committee designed standards. -- Rafael R. Sevilla <dido at imperium dot ph> +63(2)8123151 Software Developer, Imperium Technology Inc. +63(917)4458925 _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
