Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 07:13:08PM +0100, Petr Baudis wrote: >> 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 ShadeHawk on #git - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html