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+<head>
+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label TeXfuture</title>
+</head><body>
+<h3>What is the future of TeX?</h3>
+<p/>Knuth has declared that he will do no further development of TeX;
+he will continue to fix any bugs that are reported to him (though
+bugs are rare). This decision was made soon after
+TeX version 3.0 was released; at each bug-fix release
+the version number acquires one more digit, so that it tends to the
+limit pi (at the time of writing, Knuth&rsquo;s latest release is version
+3.141592). Knuth wants TeX to be frozen at version pi when he
+dies; thereafter, no further changes may be made to Knuth&rsquo;s source.
+(A similar rule is applied to Metafont; its version number tends to the
+limit e, and currently stands at 2.71828.)
+<p/>Knuth explains his decision, and exhorts us all to respect it, in a
+paper originally published in <i>TUGboat</i> 11(4) (and reprinted in the
+
+<a href="http://www.ntg.nl/maps/pdf/5_34.pdf">NTG journal MAPS</a>).
+<p/>There are projects (some of them long-term
+projects: see, for example,
+<a href="FAQ-LaTeX3.html">the LaTeX3 project</a>)
+
+to build substantial
+new macro packages based on TeX. For the even longer term, there
+are various projects to build a <em>successor</em> to TeX; see, for example,
+the
+
+<a href="FAQ-luatex.html">\LuaTeX</a>,
+<a href="FAQ-omegaleph.html">Omega/Aleph</a> and
+<a href="FAQ-extex.html">ExTeX</a>
+ projects.
+<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=TeXfuture">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=TeXfuture</a>
+</body>