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    I would add to this that the minimal class exists for historical reasons (it was useful in 1993/4 when computers were much less powerful than they are today). The name of the class has regrettably led people to believe that it is intended for minimal examples, which was never the case. Commented Jan 24, 2012 at 9:34
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    How depressing it is to be old enough to have been involved in implementing historical artifacts:-) Yes, actually the main motivating use for that class was testing the design of the latex2e package and class loading mechanism, just to check that there were not implied hidden dependencies on the standard article/report/book classes (which were of course the only ones existing for a while). Commented Jan 24, 2012 at 11:53
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    You mean, such as the pyramids? Did you draw the plans, or were you just in charge of the hieroglyphs? Commented Jan 24, 2012 at 18:11
  • @DavidCarlisle so can we say that minimal is considered as an easter egg of LaTeX? :) Commented Jan 26, 2020 at 7:29