On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 11:54:29PM -0500, Amir Michail wrote: > On Jan 10, 2008 5:17 PM, Joris van der Hoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 05:12:33PM -0500, Amir Michail wrote: > > > One of the major barriers to adoption of TeXmacs is not technical at > > > all -- but rather has to do with peer pressure. > > > > > > In the CS theory community for example, you are considered clueless if > > > you do not use TeX -- period! There is little interest in checking > > > out TeXmacs because -- even if it is better than TeX -- your peers > > > would look down on you if you like it! I don't know if this is out of > > > respect for Knuth or because the community is very conservative or > > > what. > > > > > > It's really quite amazing though. > > > > Yes, this kind of discussion is tiring me too. > > Anyway, we'll just continue our job, adoption or not. > > Incidentally, did you get any feedback on TeXmacs from Knuth?
No, but I admit that I never contacted him myself. I probably should have done so, but that is a bit late now. Best wishes, Joris _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
