14 Sep
2019
14 Sep
'19
8:44 a.m.
On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 07:02:40PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
Roff has some pretty sophisticated stuff (environments
come to mind) that
I think 99.9% of the CS world doesn't understand (sort of like my rant
on SCCS, most people didn't look hard enough to get it. I'm not sure
that I get roff environments to this day but I kinda do).
I'd love to see the docs on that early stuff and see if Joe Ossanna
added in his own magic or was he carrying forward earlier magic.
Here's a good page on the history:
https://manpages.bsd.lv/history.html
P.S. I love this list for this stuff, I'm an old
retired guy that
wishes he could have helped birth Unix. Hanging out with the people
who were there is super fun.
Hell yeah to both!
Cheers, Warren