[zzless]

I have the same sentiment about TeX. The fact that the language has been stable for over 30 years is incredibly important to me. I also feel like I can do anything in TeX: I have written a C compiler in TeX as an academic exercise so I cannot take complaints about TeX's macros seriously.

[constantcrying]

You can not take complaints about TeX being a very bad programming language, based on the totally obsolete principle of macro expansion seriously, because you have written something complex in it?

That is totally absurd. TeX is an awful programming language and there is no changing that. Either you accept it and suffer through it or use something else. But it obviously the worst thing about typesetting in any TeX derived system.

[tzs]

> I have written a C compiler in TeX as an academic exercise so I cannot take complaints about TeX's macros seriously.

I remember in the '80s hearing that someone had written a Fortran compiler in troff, just to prove it could be done.

[DemocracyFTW2]

> I have written a C compiler in TeX

You must be fun at parties.

There's all kinds of weird stuff that people do, like the other day I saw a guy with a wingsuit that was apparently crafted from a carpet jump into the abyss to ride the winds. "I can not take people seriously who do not just use a carpet and jump off cliffs". You do you I guess.