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Joeri on Nov 22, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPa...

Are you implying that qmail and tex don't have actual users?

The point those packages make is that some problems can have a solution that lasts years or decades instead of mere months.

roel_v on Nov 22, 2011 [–]

How many people are using just TeX, and how many just qmail in production systems (i.e., not on their local workstation)? Very few.

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