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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 21:29:05 -0000 (UTC)
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On 25 Sep 2024 15:48:01 GMT, Stefan Ram wrote:

> Dudes, when Knuth was on the hunt for a language to whip up TeX back
> in the day, he figured Pascal was the cream of the crop among his
> options. You got to put that language in perspective and see it
> through the lens of its time!

I tried dipping my toes into TEX and LATEX, but could never quite make 
sense of it. Too many mysterious warnings or errors, with little or no 
idea how to fix them.

Then I tried groff, and got good-quality results with very little work.

Guess which one I prefer to use now.