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Alan Xiang
Personal blog · alanshawn.comprogrammingscience
Alan Xiang's personal blog at alanshawn.com covers programming and science. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “LaTeX3: Programming in LaTeX with Ease”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Alan Xiang's posts on LaTeX, including a LaTeX3 programming tutorial and an essay arguing that Finl is not LaTeX. The comments discuss LaTeX's design and ask about the author's claims.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Alan Xiang’s personal blog.
Most-linked posts?
- LaTeX3: Programming in LaTeX with Ease3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-12-07
What Hacker News says?
> Some issues with LaTeX development are essentially intractable. Could you perhaps open this claim a little? What's wrong with the L3 programming layer? ( https://www.alanshawn.com/latex3-tutorial/ - Already integrated to the format)
Comment linking /latex3-tutorial/
on “Finl is not LaTeX”Submitted LaTeX3: Programming in LaTeX with Ease (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm a math professor. I've written articles, books, lecture notes, exams, exercise sheets, presentations... with latex. Hell, even a custom class for a journal I participate in. I hate this language with a passion. The design choices may have made sense in the 80s when 128 kB of RAM was considered high-end, "tooling" was an unknown term, and modern parser design an academic matter. If I have to read "Runaway argumen…
Comment linking /tech/2020/05/25/latex-3.html
on “LaTeX3: Programming in LaTeX with Ease (2020)”Submitted Matplotlib: High Quality Vector Graphics for LaTeX Paper as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted LaTeX3: Programming in LaTeX with Ease as a story · 2 points
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