Re: [PATCH] Document git-runstatus

Joshua N Pritikin wrote:

On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 07:13:08PM +0100, Petr Baudis wrote:

quoted

BTW, I've finally found a fine example of situation parallel to Git:
TeX!  There are the core TeX commands (plumbing) and plain TeX (basic
porcelain) on top of that as well as a bunch of other macro sets (other
porcelains). Now I need to dig out The TeXbook from wherever I've put it
to see how did Knuth deal with it, documentation-wise.

Gahh! Please don't use TeX as an example. As far as I know, TeX doesn't 
offer lexical scope. 

It offers grouping.

Hence, action-at-a-distance is commonplace which  
makes program execution extremely difficult for mere mortals to 
predict. I am constantly amazed at popularity of TeX, in spite of its 
grave deficiencies. Perhaps there isn't a good alternative yet.

TeX (even plain TeX) is like assembler of programming languages. One does
usually use one of the TeX macros sets, like LaTeX, ConTeXt or texinfo.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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