9 Jul
2004
9 Jul
'04
5:44 p.m.
Chris Cannam wrote:
On Friday 09 Jul 2004 8:08 pm, Chris Pickett wrote:
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.
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!
Great. Thanks man. Way to prove my point! :P
Chris