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From: tli@sargas.usc.edu.UUCP
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Subject: Re: ctex documentation
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Date: Sun, 6-Sep-87 03:53:09 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep  6 03:53:09 1987
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In article <1109@vu-vlsi.UUCP> 164485913@excalibur.UUCP (Mark Schaffer) writes:
    
    While it is true that TeX written in pascal is very difficult to work on
    if you only have a C compiler, isn't the reason TeX was originally written
    in pascal was because everyone and their Aunt Sophie knows enough pascal
    and probably has access (somehow) to a pascal compiler.  I think that if
    this is indeed the case, why do people make it difficult for themselves,
    and some others, by rewriting it in C?

The problem comes about when Uncle Homer buys a System V box.  pc is
standard with BSD variants, but not with System V.

Tony Li - USC University Computing Services	"Fene mele kiki bobo"
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