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From: lmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Laurie Mann)
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Subject: Re: A portrait of the TeX novice/user/hacker/...
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Date: 1 May 91 13:25:26 GMT
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In article <1991Apr29.163635.1320@agate.berkeley.edu> raymond@math.berkeley.edu  
(Raymond Chen) writes:
> Hacker:

I prefer your definitions.  I'm somewhere between a hacker and a wizard rather
than a "mere user"

Maybe one definition of a true TeX hacker is someone who prefers
TeX to WSIWYG systems.  By the end of this month, I'll be using
FrameMaker full time, but I'm sure I'll still use TeX for letters,
personal writing, etc. 

>  * Is on a first-name basis with Don and Leslie.
>    (and Michael [Spivak]? Barbara [Beeton]?)

Well, I can't think of any member of the TeX Users' Group
who isn't on a first
name basis with Barbara!

<>[The principle of] legal subordination of one sex to the 
<>other--is wrong in itself...it ought to be replaced by a
<>principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or 
<>privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.
<>The Subjection of Women (1869), John Stuart Mill

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