[linux-audio-user] Note typesetting for Linux

[Chris Cannam]

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 don't think that has much bearing on the present discussion though!


Chris