30 Nov
2020
30 Nov
'20
10:37 p.m.
So Clem, the fact that troff lost and LaTex won is a direct result of
that walled garden that was the early days of Unix. Unless you had
a Unix license, no troff for you! Which is a huge bummer, I'm a huge
troff fan (especially pic, but all of the preprocessors let you see the
output in your head). I wish we lived in a troff world but we don't
and that is a direct result of haves (license holders) and have nots
(the other 99.999999% of the world).
It's not the result we would like but it is what it is.
On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 10:52:40AM -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
Too bad, they did not use the UNIX tool kit like troff
and eqn which are
described in the paper itself, to restore it. If you were going to the
trouble to make the 'md' file - it would have been just as easy to create
troff source.
Sigh ... get off my lawn ...
Clem
On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 10:17 PM Joachim via TUHS <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org>
wrote:
> Apologies if this has already been linked here.
>
> "The UNIX Command Language is the first-ever paper published on the Unix
> shell. It was written by Ken Thompson in 1976."
>
> https://github.com/susam/tucl
>
>
> Joachim
>
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