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From: ellard@bbn.com (Dan Ellard)
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Subject: Re: A portrait of the TeX novice/user/hacker/...
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Date: 30 Apr 91 17:01:25 GMT
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In article <1991Apr28.235931.15846@csrd.uiuc.edu> eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) writes:
>After the well-known classification of the Unix user/wizard/...
>maybe it is time to start compiling the profile of the
>users of TeX.
>
>user: thinks to have found a bug in TeX
>...
>guru: has actually found a bug in TeX

I would change this somewhat:

Novice: has found several bugs in TeX.
User: has learned to live with the bugs in TeX.

Hacker: has learned not to write self-modifying macros.
Wizard: knows how to recompile TeX with larger arbitrary limits.
Guru: Can answer any TeX question.  Uses troff when nobody is looking.


-Dan