14 Jan
2022
14 Jan
'22
5:48 p.m.
It was definitely Dennis, at least for the cleanup part I was referring to.
-rob
On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 9:14 PM Jaap Akkerhuis <jaapna(a)xs4all.nl> wrote:
On Jan 14, 2022, at 1:10, Rob Pike
<robpike(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Dennis spent quite a bit of time cleaning up the troff code in the late
1980s, if
I remember right, moving it to modern C. He got annoyed by it one
day.
If I remember correctly, it was actually Ken. He also turned it
in a single binary. (Troff -N turned it into nroff).
It was the "ditroff" variant although
honestly I don't remember us ever
calling it that. It was just the current
version of troff. Not sure where
the name came from. Perhaps it was us but I think of it as a foreign name.
Originally Brian called it "Typesetter Independent Troff" in the
article he wrote about it and for some reason people started to
call it "Device Independent".
jaap