Re: [Texmacs-dev] major barrier to adoption

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 05:12:33PM -0500, Amir Michail wrote:
> One of the major barriers to adoption of TeXmacs is not technical at
> all -- but rather has to do with peer pressure.
> 
> In the CS theory community for example, you are considered clueless if
> you do not use TeX -- period!  There is little interest in checking
> out TeXmacs because -- even if it is better than TeX -- your peers
> would look down on you if you like it!  I don't know if this is out of
> respect for Knuth or because the community is very conservative or
> what.
> 
> It's really quite amazing though.

Yes, this kind of discussion is tiring me too.
Anyway, we'll just continue our job, adoption or not.

Best wishes, Joris