[Info-vax] Why so much Unix envy?

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <luigdj$k0e$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist
<bqt at softjar.se> writes: 

> I can't remember for sure, but I seem to remember that LaTeX is a macro 
> package for TeX, and if so, then it can hardly be called a VMS program.
> 
> But I'd be happy to be corrected.

Define "program".  :-)

Much of the development of LaTeX was done on VMS; Lamport was even 
employed by DEC at the time.  But also much of the next-generation LaTeX 
was done by VMS folks.

The point is that it was developed on VMS and runs on a wide variety of 
operating systems.  So, things like file names, file types and so on are 
not such that they work on unix and nowhere else.