[latex3-commits] [latex3/latex2e] ltnews40: intro (WIP) (f5e9b2a5b)

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commit f5e9b2a5bd87de7e5dbe640b31d23426551b87f8
Author: Frank Mittelbach <frank.mittelbach at latex-project.org>
Date:   Mon Oct 28 10:56:28 2024 +0100

    intro (WIP)


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 \section{Introduction}
 
-\emph{to write \ldots\ 30th anniversary of \LaTeXe{} this year btw}
+Summer 1994, i.e., thirty years ago, \LaTeXe{} saw its first public
+release. Back then it was meant to be a intermediate version (hence
+the $\epsilon$) on the way to a major new version (the mythical
+\LaTeX3) that we expected to take a couple of more years to reach
+maturity. It took more than that in the end and \LaTeXe{} is still
+with us today.
+
+However, under the hood, \LaTeXe{} changed a lot throughout these
+thirty years as one can see, for example, when looking through the
+fourty newletters that accompanied the \LaTeX{} releases that happened
+in the meantime~\cite{40:ltnews}.
+
+During the first two decades, the \LaTeX{} kernel was kept stable with
+only minimal bug fix activities. During that period additional
+functionalities were mostly provided through new or extended packages
+that could be loaded in the document preamble. This included many of
+the ideas targeted for \LaTeX3{}, e.g., \pkg{expl3} (\LaTeX3
+progamming language), \pkg{xparse} (new document command interface),
+\pkg{xtemplate} (a configuration mechanism) and many others.
+
+
 
 \section{Engine support: important update}