From: sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de (Georg Bauhaus)
Subject: Re: Problem trying to implement generics.
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:09:22 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2001-04-24T15:09:22+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9c44v2$1c7$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wccg0ezt7wp.fsf@world.std.com
Robert A Duff (bobduff@world.std.com) wrote:
: It amazes me that Knuth, who is orders of magnitude smarter than me, can
: design such an awful language. Writing TeX is like writing an
: assembly-language program to generate a document. Except TeX is more
: error-prone than most assembly languages. LaTeX is like programming in
: a *macro* assembly language, which has some advantages, but causes all
: error messages to be totally incomprehensible.
The answer to this is, according to some recent publication of his,
is that TeX was to be a _backend_ much in the sense of macro assembly.
He writes that Steele urged him to add more "control structures".
If you are interested in a more Algol-like formatting language
(that uses TeX's paragraph breaking and more), Lout might be a choice.
It has a component, prg2lout, for include source code in documents,
with support for C, Eiffel, Python, and Perl; I've fiddled with adding
Ada support, and this has been fairly easy. You can refer to
Ada code in comments by quoting it.
ftp://ftp.cs.usyd.edu.au/jeff/lout/
http://snark.ptc.spbu.ru/~uwe/lout/
Georg
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2001-04-11 15:04 Problem trying to implement generics Ayende Rahien
2001-04-12 1:41 ` tmoran
2001-04-12 13:15 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-12 18:15 ` tmoran
2001-04-13 11:18 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-13 10:35 ` chris.danx
2001-04-13 11:54 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-13 11:49 ` chris.danx
2001-04-13 23:03 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-13 23:01 ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-14 0:05 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-14 1:12 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-14 1:44 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-14 14:03 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2001-04-14 16:30 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-14 16:28 ` Michael Erdmann
2001-04-15 3:27 ` James Rogers
2001-04-15 12:20 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-15 14:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2001-04-15 18:22 ` tmoran
2001-04-15 13:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2001-04-15 20:44 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-16 14:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2001-04-14 1:33 ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-17 8:50 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2001-04-17 13:20 ` Tucker Taft
2001-04-17 16:51 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-17 17:16 ` Larry Hazel
2001-04-17 18:11 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-17 19:10 ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-17 21:08 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-18 15:16 ` Chad R. Meiners
2001-04-18 16:33 ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-17 21:09 ` chris.danx
2001-04-17 21:11 ` chris.danx
2001-04-17 21:17 ` chris.danx
2001-05-08 5:40 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2001-05-11 9:43 ` John English
2001-05-12 19:16 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2001-04-17 19:32 ` Larry Hazel
2001-04-17 21:03 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-18 15:48 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-20 12:34 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-04-20 12:42 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-04-20 12:45 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-04-20 19:48 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-20 20:36 ` David Starner
2001-04-20 23:02 ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-23 2:45 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-24 1:15 ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-24 2:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-24 15:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-04-24 15:09 ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2001-04-24 18:36 ` Marius Amado Alves
2001-04-19 13:08 ` Larry Kilgallen
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2001-04-19 14:20 ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-18 5:34 ` Mike Silva
2001-04-18 16:55 ` Ray Blaak
2001-04-24 16:00 ` Tucker Taft
2001-04-12 13:57 ` Andy
2001-04-13 6:34 ` Simon Wright
2001-04-13 11:11 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-12 18:06 ` Stephen Leake
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