13 Aug
2022
13 Aug
'22
2:49 a.m.
At 2022-08-12T00:46:57-0600, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
"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.
Wishful thinking on my part, maybe.
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. I'm also quite sure that he prefers C to C++.
No doubt--but groff is pretty accessible to C programmers, being almost
entirely of an ancient vintage of C++. We don't have rvalue references
inside lambda expressions inside templates, for instance.
Regards,
Branden