12 Jan
2022
12 Jan
'22
8:26 a.m.
Knuth made an excellent point, maybe in _Coders At Work_ about literate
programming and why it didn't catch on: in general, about 1 out of 20
people can be a really good programmer. In general, one of 20 people can
be a really good writer. These talents are largely uncorrelated.
Sure, being competent at either is a teachable skill. But no one wants to
read either a program or a narrative written by someone who's merely OK at
it.
Adam
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 7:20 PM David Arnold <davida(a)pobox.com> wrote:
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2. Drop DVI? Are you kidding me? Although PDF
may be popular now,
No. It isn't. It is an Adobe product.
Check out ISO 32000-2:2020.
I think it’s ok in 2022 to say that PDF has escaped Adobe and is an open
standard, suitable for long-life documents, etc.
d
that may not be the case 20 years from now. A
device-independent
format is what is needed, and that's what DVI is. TeX is guaranteed
to produce the exact same output 100 years from now.
And .PDF isn't?