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[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 18 points 9 months ago (1 child)

That's TeX, not LaTeX.

Don Knuth (who originally wrote TeX) had a real obsession with perfection. He even thought he could pay exponentially increasing awards to people who found errors in his books.

He eventually stopped doing that because he wasn't as perfect as he thought he was. Still way off the charts compared to the average person, though.

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[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago

So perfect that everyone uses TeX, and no successors to it were ever developed.

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[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

At some point the bugs are features.

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

"All observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody."

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[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago

That someone will eventually be a hacker.

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[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

İmportant distinction: TeX is considered "perfect software" IIRC while LaTeX has evolved over time (or was still evolving when I last used it in the 2000s)

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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

Wow, they took the joke much further than πthon