At 11:16 -0500 1998/12/02, William F. Hammond wrote:
>: I think it is well-known by now, that all these mass-consumer movements,
>: which the *ML currently represents, usually lacks crucial quality.
>: Eventually such quality might built in, of course.
>
>Only because very few elitist mathematicians have been involved (up to
>now).
>
>: But until then, there will be a need for TeX/LaTeX.
>
>And beyond then, as well!

I think that when at the point when the various *ML movements have moved so
far that they have the capacity of generating a manuscript with all the
information that a mathematician want, then one would still need a NL
(notational language) with capacity of accepting less corny syntaxes than
the SGML stuff.

But then there is no point in using TeX/LaTeX as everything that can be
done in those languages can be done more conveniently and accurately in
this NL.

  Hans Aberg
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