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Is software ever done? (opensourcesecurity.io)

submitted 6 days ago by CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That's TeX, not LaTeX.

Don Knuth (who originally wrote TeX) had a real obsession with perfection. He even thought he could pay exponentially increasing awards to people who found errors in his books.

He eventually stopped doing that because he wasn't as perfect as he thought he was. Still way off the charts compared to the average person, though.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 4 points 5 days ago

So perfect that everyone uses TeX, and no successors to it were ever developed.