Thanks for not digressing :) To address your concern, yes I am not very mature as an industrial grade programmer. I have plenty of professional experience, but there's also plenty of experience still to be had.
I do understand my comments are inflammatory, and did not expect at all they'd be upvoted more than downvoted, but that seems to be the case.
Your standpoint is the one many in this thread have and I understand the least. This idea that "code purity" and functional purity are different.
The only reason that LaTex can not be improved is that its code is unaccessible. This means its functionality lies rigidly restricted in the 80s. In my opinion, there's nothing functionally pure about 70s/80s software. Back then, functionality followed from hardware restrictions.
I do understand my comments are inflammatory, and did not expect at all they'd be upvoted more than downvoted, but that seems to be the case.
Your standpoint is the one many in this thread have and I understand the least. This idea that "code purity" and functional purity are different.
The only reason that LaTex can not be improved is that its code is unaccessible. This means its functionality lies rigidly restricted in the 80s. In my opinion, there's nothing functionally pure about 70s/80s software. Back then, functionality followed from hardware restrictions.