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Two more tidbits for the discussion:

1) Several programmers have commented that they would rather work at
the 'high' level of a markup language; also some people have said they
find the formatting information distracting when they're writing. So
I'd like to express my esthetic preference: I'm a programmer, and when
writing I MUCH prefer any WYSIWYG, even a primitive one, to a mark up
language. To my taste the markup commands are much more distracting.

2) I think the real competition to TeX may come not from the PC level
word processing market, but the new workstation level packages. We've
been trying out FrameMaker here, and I'm very impressed with it. The
problem with it for our environment is that you need a graphics console
to run it, and many of our TeX users have nothing but an ascii terminal.
For much of what's done here the big advantage of TeX is that you can
run it from a terminal.

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Harry Bochner
bochner@endor.harvard.edu