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On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 12:05:53PM -0500, William F. Hammond wrote:

> Phillip Helbig writes:
>
> > There are a lot of very good cathedral products out there which are
> > very good and chugging away and are very successful but one never
> > hears anything about them.
>
> I do not doubt this point.  In fact, there is one, a computer
> algebra system, that I use.

I'm surprised no-one in this somewhat philosophical discussion
has mentioned one very eminent "cathedral product",
namely tex itself.

No bazaar for DK.

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