12 Aug
2022
12 Aug
'22
12:46 p.m.
"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Knowing BWK, I personally doubt that he'd have messed with GNU pic
when he has his own copy of the original program that he himself wrote.
I'm also quite sure that he prefers C to C++.
Oh surely. I
just don't know what sources those would be, exactly;
presumably some derivative he's been shepherded all these years? I
wonder what it is....
Per Kernighan's _Unix: A History and a Memoir_ (2020), it seems likely
that it was simply groff. "Camera-ready copy for this book was produced by
the author in Times
Roman and Helvetica, using groff, ghostscript, and other open source
Unix tools." (copyright page)
Sure, because he works on Linux and MacOS and the GNU tools are easily
installable and "just work".
Of course, Dan could always just ask Brian what he did. :-)
Arnold