Re: [Texmacs-dev] major barrier to adoption

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 11:54:29PM -0500, Amir Michail wrote:
> On Jan 10, 2008 5:17 PM, Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 05:12:33PM -0500, Amir Michail wrote:
> > > One of the major barriers to adoption of TeXmacs is not technical at
> > > all -- but rather has to do with peer pressure.
> > >
> > > In the CS theory community for example, you are considered clueless if
> > > you do not use TeX -- period!  There is little interest in checking
> > > out TeXmacs because -- even if it is better than TeX -- your peers
> > > would look down on you if you like it!  I don't know if this is out of
> > > respect for Knuth or because the community is very conservative or
> > > what.
> > >
> > > It's really quite amazing though.
> >
> > Yes, this kind of discussion is tiring me too.
> > Anyway, we'll just continue our job, adoption or not.
> 
> Incidentally, did you get any feedback on TeXmacs from Knuth?

No, but I admit that I never contacted him myself.
I probably should have done so, but that is a bit late now.

Best wishes, Joris