Chris Cannam wrote: > On Friday 09 Jul 2004 8:08 pm, Chris Pickett wrote: > >>Yes, of course, but the typesetting language _itself_ doesn't have >>this, right? I can also do [...] in TeX, but that doesn't make it >>_programming_. > > > Bad example -- TeX is not a very efficient general-purpose language, > but it is certainly a true programming language. Here for example > are implementations of Bresenham's straight line algorithm and Bezier > splines in TeX, which I wrote for fun about twelve years ago: > > http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/m/line-algorithms.tex I had a feeling TeX could do that. If people are doing the same kind of things to write music, then to me it's definitely programming. > I don't think that has much bearing on the present discussion though! Great. Thanks man. Way to prove my point! :P Chris
