Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([62.225.9.49]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.4905); Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:51:13 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g6BAogWi004105 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:50:43 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6BAZlWK004035; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:35:47 +0200 (MET DST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C228C8.DF9D6680" Received: from listserv (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.2/8.12.2/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id g6ANGR6j031196; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:36:49 +0200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 4467 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:36:49 +0200 Received: from relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (relay2.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.210.211]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.2/8.12.2/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id g6BAanxD002160 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:36:49 +0200 Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (mmdf@salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with SMTP id g6BAZVT8024651 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:35:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from somewhere by salmon.maths.tcd.ie via UUCP id ; 11 Jul 2002 11:35:30 +0100 (BST) Received: (from tim@localhost) by alfred.murphy.ie (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g6BAKPM02604 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:20:25 +0100 In-Reply-To: ; from jbezos@WANADOO.ES on Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 10:51:11AM +0200 References: <15660.38310.276619.162527@istrati.mittelbach-online.de> Return-Path: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Jul 2002 10:51:13.0941 (UTC) FILETIME=[E02CFC50:01C228C8] User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: LPPL under review at savannah.gnu.org Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:20:25 +0100 Message-ID: A<20020711112025.E2564@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Re: LPPL under review at savannah.gnu.org Thread-Index: AcIoyOBHWs1XKBhoSKSz+9th8IUwsA== From: "Timothy Murphy" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4275 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C228C8.DF9D6680 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 10:51:11AM +0200, Javier Bezos wrote: > Python can be modified only if you know C, but > LaTeX can be modified simply if you know LaTeX (and maybe TeX). This is a truly bizarre comparison. First of all, the number of people who know C is an order of magnitude large than those who know TeX/LaTeX . Secondly, it is in fact easy to fiddle with Python files without knowing any Python, let alone C. I'm on a mailman-user list, and people seem to spend their entire lives doing this. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: 086-233 6090 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ------_=_NextPart_001_01C228C8.DF9D6680 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: LPPL under review at savannah.gnu.org

On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 10:51:11AM +0200, Javier Bezos = wrote:
> Python can be modified only if you know C, = but
> LaTeX can be modified simply if you know LaTeX = (and maybe TeX).

This is a truly bizarre comparison.

First of all, the number of people who know C
is an order of magnitude large than those who know = TeX/LaTeX .

Secondly, it is in fact easy to fiddle with Python = files
without knowing any Python, let alone C.
I'm on a mailman-user list,
and people seem to spend their entire lives doing = this.

--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
tel: 086-233 6090
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, = Dublin 2, Ireland

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