Donald Knuth - LaTeX and ConTeXt (69/97)
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- Опубликовано: 25 янв 2016
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Donald Knuth (b. 1938), American computing pioneer, is known for his greatly influential multi-volume work, 'The Art of Computer Programming', his novel 'Surreal Numbers', his invention of TeX and METAFONT electronic publishing tools and his quirky sense of humour. [Listener: Dikran Karagueuzian; date recorded: 2006]
TRANSCRIPT: I developed TeX so that it... it would support many different formats that would be at a higher level. So... TeX is... is a fixed point that people can build on, and one of the main ways that people have built on it, is LaTeX and different versions of LaTeX improving over the years. Another very important system goes way beyond LaTeX, called ConTeXt... or ConTeXt... I don't know how they pronounce it, it comes in a Dutch... in Holland they... they have very interesting pronunciation in Holland. And... but certainly, way most popular is LaTeX... LaTeX... the author never has decided how to pronounce it. And... and I don't use it myself, it's... but... but I know that lots of people really think it's exactly the... the language that's... that's most convenient, you know, for... for them to use. So... so I developed... I developed the basic system so that it would support many different styles for special projects. If somebody wants to write a...a dictionary between Chinese and Icelandic, they can make their own format that would make this really convenient for them. And there's many... many scholarly versions and... all kinds of versions, so I... I tried to make it easy to... to build different... different structures upon. I have special formats that my wife and I use for family history reports and for our... for our recipes in the kitchen and things like this. And... each one... each one looks different when you type the computer file, but... but TeX is the engine underneath in all cases. 
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pov: you are here for how to pronounce LaTeX
I now know how to pronounce latex gloves as well as LaTeX the programming language
That is *exactly* what I'm here for. No kidding.
He says it at 0:15.
@@InternetHuman16 so the key here is to pronounce it as you would in greek. Nice
Almost...I'm here to stroke my ego ;)
And they said my pronunciation was stupid.
It's so precious to listen to Donald Knuth and how he reacts to people who actually read his book, like Leslie Lamport or Hans Hagen!
Though here he pronounces it like English "TeCH", in his book he pronounces it Greek "tecne" (translating to technique but also math) which is close to the German "aCH", which has absolutely no K-sound within. So the correct pronunciation is "Te-hhhh" of which there is no comparable sounding word in English.
The fun part is that English derives from Germanic, which Dutch also derives from. And the English word "context" in natural Dutch has the correct pronunciation of Greek TeX within. KonTeHHHT.
This taken into concern there was never a reason for Leslie Lamport to decide for a pronunciation for LaTeX as it's simply "Lamport TeX".
The transcript in the RUclips description is off here. I think it's the transcript of the next section (70/97, A Summary of the TeX project)
Wow, I wasn't expecting anyone to read these comments... thanks for fixing it (so quickly too!), and thanks a lot for publishing this great series of videos.
Hot damn, yeah,I find it quicker and easier to read than listen. I learned that he doesn’t use it, but he does use it ! For recipes and family history, programmers are strange folk
using latex in the Persian project is not as good as English project and include some bugs that are annoying
The original release of TeX did not support anything but ASCII even though the system it was developed on supported extended character sets. So his assertion that it was suitable for Chinese to Icelandic dictionaries is laughable since it was only usable for American English and Dutch in practice. I am not surprised you are having problems with Farsi, I run into problems with western languages ...
@@reiknir kuttekop
@@DrWhom how Dutch of you
@@reiknir who on earth would write academic documents in any languages but English? Even in my daily job as an engineer our multi national team only use English for communication.
@@philongpham3886 So TeX is only useful for writing academic work? And BTW, I and millions of people out there write academic work in other languages than English
He appears to have problems with diction, will he be given hours of dedicated programming?