[OS X TeX] Re: Font tools
Bruno Voisin
bvoisin at mac.com
Tue Jun 1 10:21:50 CEST 2004
Le 1 juin 04, à 10:08, Gerben Wierda a écrit :
> Remember Alan Perlis and
> the lollipop ;-) (I always thought that quote was from Knuth, but
> according to a page I found it isn't)
Both statements are, to some extent, true: the second quotation at the
end of Appendix B (the description of the plain TeX format) of the
TeXbook, on p. 365, is:
When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only
say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
Alan Perlis, Epigrams on Programming (1982)
Bruno
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