Lea Verou on Nostr: Whenever I feel bad about yak shaving, I’m reminded of Donald Knuth. Apparently, he ...

Whenever I feel bad about yak shaving, I’m reminded of Donald Knuth.

Apparently, he was writing his masterwork “The Art of Computer Programming” and decided to take a few weeks to write a better typesetter.

Thus, TeX was born.

10 years later he returned to continue the writing of the actual book…