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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 24 Mar 2002.
Re: Do regular user need Linux?

Re: Do regular user need Linux?

On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 11:12:31 +0000 (UTC), Dr Scab <sca...@herpes.co.uk> wrote:
>On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 08:45:36 +0100, in alt.ascii-art,
> (zho...@cs.uni-frankfurt.de (L. Zhou)) wrote:
>>
>>>>I've tried LyX, and like it okay.  It's good for generating the
>>>>stuff I haven't learned yet.  I would ultimately like to do what
>>>>Jim says below.
>>>
>>>LyX is for women. Use raw LaTeX.
>>
>>LaTeX is for kids. Use raw troff/groff. 
>
>Troff is rubbish. Real men use 'cat | lpr' and then just
>write postscript.

postscript is garbage. Real geek use his own FSM to control the
AOI gates, and tell the Laser-Jet what to print.

>
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