From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3F294368.4020809@nas.com> From: Jack Johnson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030416 Thunderbird/0.1a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] [even more off topic] 'The Practice of Programming' & References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:27:20 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0cdae1da-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Charles Forsyth wrote: > it does produce quite attractive output (pm obviously, not cfront). > i simply use the old binary on current Plan 9. Is there any particular reason why pm was written in C++ and not C? Intern project? Easier? Heritage from Some Other Unix? I'm not familiar with it at all. Where does/did it fit in the troff chain? Is there anything that replaces it now? -Jack