30 Nov
2017
30 Nov
'17
3:48 a.m.
On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 08:00:55PM +0100, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
|On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 07:06:51PM -0500, Ron Natalie wrote:
|> 1977 marks my entry into the world of UNIX. I've always stated there was
|> only one person who truly understood nroff and he was dead.
|> I mourn the fact that of all the UNIX greats I've met, I missed out on
|> Ossanna.
|I think one could argue that James Clark has a pretty good handle on
|roff (having written the GNU version of nroff/troff/tbl/eqn/pic etc).
And Werner Lemberg, who carried the torch for the last almost two
decades. He brought in some really great improvements, like
arguments for strings, which allows to write pretty much TeX like
a.k.a. inline if you want to (as in "this is \*[I talic] text").
Yep. James exited stage left and Werner stepped in. I mean no disrespect
to anyone, I was just saying that James has a really good handle on roff,
he redid it all. I admire him for doing so (even though I curse the fact
that he did it in C++).