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Re: Per Bothner makes the big time> So you're one of the nameless slaves who actually wrote most of TeX. No; I helped *port* Metafont. I wrote a large part of the 68k backend of the Pascal compiler used to compile Metafont; I wrote some routines to display preview images; I debugged the port, usually finding bugs in the compiler or runtime, but sometimes in Metafont itself; I did various tasks to help the class get going. Knuth definitely wrote most of the code himself, at least for the Metafont re-write, for which I have pesonal knowledge. However, some of his students (such as Michael Plass and John Hobby) did work on the algorithms used in TeX and Metafont. He also did have a programmer (David something) working for him at one point, but not as I recall at the time of the Metafont re-write. (I realize the question was meant as a joke, but I still thought it best to clarify for the record.) -- --Per Bothner bothner@pacbell.net http://home.pacbell.net/bothner/
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