HTML is universally and incredibly ugly, both in the markup language and it its appearance when rendered on a page. I therefore refuse it as a medium for an essay. Further, no proprietary M*cr*$*ft software has been used in the construction of this document. The statement was formatted into Postscript from GNU Groff markup language with the mgm macro package, and converted thence to PDF using ps2pdf. It was archived using RCS, with formatting controlled by gmake running on a Unix (Sparc Solaris) machine. The Statement on Teaching, April 2008, is available both as a PDF and a Postscript file: stmt/statement-on-teaching.pdf stmt/statement-on-teaching.ps The htaccess allows automatic access from *.ucsc.edu. From other locations, use the word ``perl'' for both the username and the password. $Id: index.html,v 1.5 2008-06-27 18:17:30-07 - - $ With apologies to Marcus Porcius Cato Maior (DXX-DCV auc): ``Praeterea, censeo Microflaccidem esse delendam.''