But I actually have read it and this is one of my favorite parts: Yes, sorry professors, if you can’t get fired for missing a deadline then you aren’t a real programmer working in the real world.
That's right -- and TeX isn't real software, and nobody writes real documents with it.
Zed Shaw sounds like an annoying war veteran. ``Master amateur''. I can almost hear him say: "you can't know, son; you weren't there". But the truth is he hasn't actually been to any wars, he's just a whiny ruby programmer.