[racket] Integrating scribble and LaTeX

From: Shriram Krishnamurthi (sk at cs.brown.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 24 08:32:30 EDT 2011

> In principle it's the same, but in practice TeX is less infuriating, oddly.

That's because LaTeX is a very leaky abstraction, and when it leaks it
gushes.  It would be as if Racket periodically decided to return not
values but bit patterns, which need to be interpreted in the context
of a self-modifying hardware architecture.

> Early exposure to TeX means that I have no interest in sudoku, and laugh in the face of languages like brainfuck.

Amen, brother.

Shriram


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