On 21 Okt., 19:34, Joachim Durchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > These are small detractions from a large overall contribution. > In particular, I find llothars characterization of TeX wrong: it is one > of the least buggy typesetting programs ever written (not a small feat), > and it *still* produces output that is as least as good as what other > programs do, and in fact better than the vast majority.
Acording to the Legend Of The Great Knuth ( derived from personal confessions ) Knuth used a "Clean Room" approach. He specified and verified the entire program before he started hacking it into the machine. The result is accordingly. What has changed since then is computer power and easeness of tool usage. One would rather use an incremental approach today and specify + hack + test the program in tiny pieces without struggling too much with the programming equipment. So it also just incrementally improves. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
