Thinking outside the box of code (Changelog Interviews #552)
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The Importance of Separating Ideas From the Type Setting
It's still the majority tool that is used in those communities for specifications and writing, or is there something that's usurped it since? No, I think it's still math and physics. They used it still, the standard. And to me, what speaks to me about it is the separation of what you're saying versus how it looks. That's a key aspect, right? Is like the... Oh, yeah. You know, Knuth intended for things to be built on top of it, but I'm not sure he expected so much of the underlying tech to be hidden from the user.
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