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Thinking outside the box of code (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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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 the how it looks. That was why tech needed something on top of it. You know, Knuth intended for things to be built ontop 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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