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Article #6237Re: yet another new TeX user aghast at the "TeXBook" !!!!!!
From: Charlie Geyer
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1989 06:23
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1989 06:23
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Now three flames of the TeXbook for not being a primer. Knuth's writing is an aquired taste. Perhaps I would have been more bothered by the TeXbook if I were not so familiar with the Art of Computer Programming. The TeXbook is a very good book. It was clearly the right first book to write about TeX. It is a complete reference manual. It is perhaps the best documentation of a complex computer system ever written. That it is not suitable for tyros is not even interesting.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!uw-entropy!mica!charlie From: charlie@mica.stat.washington.edu (Charlie Geyer) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: yet another new TeX user aghast at the "TeXBook" !!!!!! Message-ID: <1393@uw-entropy.ms.washington.edu> Date: 26 Apr 89 06:23:08 GMT References: <1481@hub.ucsb.edu> <1006@sas.UUCP> Sender: news@uw-entropy.ms.washington.edu Reply-To: charlie@mica.stat.washington.edu (Charlie Geyer) Organization: UW Statistics, Seattle Lines: 10