Re: [ACM] [ACM Announce] 3/2 ACM Meeting - PETER!

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Emily Cohan

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Mar 9, 2017, 8:13:28 AM3/9/17
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Everyone I know that learned LaTeX said it was the bomb and that it definitely gives you super powers.

Emily Cohan (JHU A&S '06)
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SF - LA - Santa Cruz

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Samuel Beckley <sobe...@gmail.com> wrote:
Howdy all,

We're very excited to announce this week's ACM speaker will Peter Fröhlich! His blurb is below.  As always the meeting will be in Malone 228 at 6:30 this Thursday, and there will be milk and cookies :)

This talk will be on LaTeX (pronounced La-Tek).  LaTeX is an incredibly powerful typesetting language.  It is, for the uninitiated, that thing your math professor uses to produce those gorgeous homework sets that cause you to stay up all night.  Its also used for writing academics papers and you may or may not use it to write up your algorithms homeworks.  If you're lucky there might be some D&D mentioned at some point.  Knowing LaTeX gives you super powers that allow you to produce professional looking documents, and rumor has it might increase your GPA because no one wants to mark down a professional looking homework set, regardless of how dumb your answers were.

We hope to see you there!
Sam
ACM Chair

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Benjamin Reis

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Mar 9, 2017, 3:34:53 PM3/9/17
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Allow me to provide a counterexample:


LaTeX is a terrible language and its implementations are generally terrible software. I just barely tolerate it for certain purposes because the alternatives aren't functional.

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Patrick E. Carter

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Mar 9, 2017, 5:17:51 PM3/9/17
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But you don't deny it provides superpowers, terrible though they may be.

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Benjamin Reis

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Mar 9, 2017, 5:28:14 PM3/9/17
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I feel like there's a worthwhile distinction to be made between superpowers and terriblepowers. LaTeX certainly *attempts* to provide superpowers, but I'm not inclined to say it succeeds.

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