Lea Verou on Nostr: Whenever I feel bad about yak shaving, I’m reminded of Donald Knuth. Apparently, he ...
Whenever I feel bad about yak shaving, I’m reminded of Donald Knuth.
Apparently, he was writing his masterwork “The Art of Computer Programming” and decided to take a few weeks to write a better typesetter.
Thus, TeX was born.
10 years later he returned to continue the writing of the actual book…
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