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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: TeX and Pascal [was Re: The joy of FORTRAN]
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 07:43:46 -0700
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On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 03:15:43 -0400
"186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:

> This is where tech again becomes "magic". Speak the charms and chants
> and spells ..... but HOW it works will always be a mystic mystery.

It's not a mystery at all; it's a probabilistic word-salad composed of
diced and julienned plagiarism, served up by a program that knows
nothing about anything. This is very, very well-documented and not even
slightly magical.