Python 3.0 or Python 3000?

[Robert Kern]

Sergei Organov wrote:
> Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> writes:
> 
>>On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:12:58 +0200, Benjamin Niemann <pink at odahoda.de>
>>declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>>
>>>That's actually the versioning scheme of TeX, currently being at 3.141592
>>
>>	<eeek> My last exposure to TeX was some 15 odd years ago; and even
>>then it was just rudimentary stuff fed through LaTeX.
> 
> It's total nonsense as LaTeX is a bunch of macros written in TeX the
> language. If you meant TeX the interpreter of the TeX the language (a
> program), then it's total nonsense again, as interpreter is not
> (usually) fed through anything.

I'm pretty sure he meant that his last exposure to TeX was writing rudimentary
stuff that he was feeding through LaTeX.

> Latex the program just loads LaTeX macros into the TeX interpreter
> before the document to be processed, so one may say LaTeX is fed through
> TeX, but not vise versa.
> 
> Anyway, it's unfair to speak of one of the most wonderful pieces of
> software ever written in such a tone.

Judging tone through email is error prone. Please try not to imagine insults
where there are none.

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