Distributed RVS, Darcs, tech love

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> Lew <lew at lewscanon.com> (L) wrote:

>L> Evidence is that TeX development is dead.  There is not yet firm evidence
>L> that Tex is a "dead end" (or even what that means), and there has been none
>L> (nor, I expect, is there any) that any of that reflects on Knuth's skill as
>L> a programmer.

According to Knuth's definition the name 'TeX' is reserved for a program
that passes the trip test. Under this assumption TeX is dead by definition.
However in a broader sense TeX is still actively developed, but it may not
be called just 'TeX' because these new versions contain extensions. So
they get new names with 'tex' being part of their name. PdfTeX and LuaTeX
are new versions that are being developed right now.
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Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl>
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