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From: edward@priam.Berkeley.EDU (Edward Wang)
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Subject: Re: A portrait of the TeX novice/user/hacker/...
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Date: 30 Apr 91 10:32:03 GMT
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In article <1991Apr29.163635.1320@agate.berkeley.edu> raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) writes:
\\User:
\\ ...
\\ * Doesn't understand why \verb is so fragile.
\\ ...
\\Hacker:
\\ ...
\\ * Has written his own macro packages, but they sometimes produce
\\   unwanted spaces in the output.
\\ ...
\\ * Understands why \verb is so fragile, but doesn't know how to get
\\   around it.
\\ ...

People who don't care to be wizards or gurus:

* Works on how to design better typesetting languages.