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From: charlie@mica.stat.washington.edu (Charlie Geyer)
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Subject: Re: yet another new TeX user aghast at the "TeXBook" !!!!!!
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Date: 26 Apr 89 06:23:08 GMT
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Now three flames of the TeXbook for not being a primer.

Knuth's writing is an aquired taste.  Perhaps I would have been more
bothered by the TeXbook if I were not so familiar with the Art of
Computer Programming.  The TeXbook is a very good book.  It was clearly
the right first book to write about TeX.  It is a complete reference
manual.  It is perhaps the best documentation of a complex computer
system ever written.  That it is not suitable for tyros is not even
interesting.