I'm a part of hacker lore
Jan. 11th, 2008 12:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhuIn a post celebrating Donald Knuth's 70th birthday (which was apparently yesterday), "Good Math, Bad Math" wrote:
TeX is more than just a typesetting system. It's a full-fledged programming language. It is absolutely turing complete - as a proof of that, a lunatic by the name of Andrew Greene wrote a complete, usable BASIC interpreter in TeX!
It's been almost twenty years since I wrote that, and here it is being cited as the extreme to which TeXhackery has been taken. I'm honored.
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sethg_prime for the pointer, and for defending me in that forum.)
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