17 Jul
2008
17 Jul
'08
7:27 p.m.
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 01:12:05PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
Indeed, both ditroff and Plan 9 troff are directly
descended from
JFO's code. Only groff is independent, which just goes to show what a
heroic programmer (in a quiet way) James Clark really is (as do nsgmls
and jing/trang).
As a still-using-troff sort of person, I can vouch for James. Wow.
Cool stuff. And groff really is mucho better than the original.
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