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The author addresses this: “We choose to switch to PDF in this decade, not because it easy, but because it is hard” – John F. Warnock, September 12th 1962"

The author is obviously making a statements, exploring ideas... not searching for an actual solution to his use case.



Yeah, it's kinda embarrassing that the one quote that gets pulled out in the HN commentary is the one that contains a typo. It's OK: Issue 1[0] contains a patch to fix the issue.

[0] https://www.lab6.com/1


Is this a comical misquote or is the PDF format actually 60 years old?


It's about 30 years old - it's creator however is said person.

The actual quote was from JFK iirc regarding the Apollo missions...


It's a comical, deliberate misquote.


Comical misquote, "Switch to PDF" replaced "Go to the Moon".


Its comical, but links to the founder of Adobe. IDK what the date alludes to.


JFK announcing the US would put a man on the Moon before the decade was over.


oh... yeah




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