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From: saroj@bear.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] off topic: troff book
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 16:25:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <941sfj$rk7$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A5F3607.53CBF6E6@arl.army.mil>

In article <3A5F3607.53CBF6E6@arl.army.mil>,
  "Douglas A. Gwyn" <gwyn@arl.army.mil> wrote:
> saroj@bear.com wrote:
> > No, that is not true. Knuth felt that troff was burdened with
> > couple of generations' legacy at Bell Labs, and he wanted to
> > start with a clean slate without fear of hurting any Bell Labs
> > colleague's feeling (about troff).
>
> ? Where did you hear that?  It doesn't even make sense.
>

It is somewhere in his "Digital Typography" book.

> > And finally, he demonstrated that even large programs can be
> > explained in full detail (unlike most programs written by early
> > Bell Labs guys), though Pascal is not a great language on which
> > WEB (the implementation language of TeX) is based.
>
[snipped]

> Whether programs are well documented or not really has nothing
> to do with typesetting languages.
>

I was referring to TeX and MetaFont implementation.

- Saroj Mahapatra



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-01-16 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-07 15:17 rob pike
2001-01-08  9:54 ` Luis Fernandes
2001-01-08 16:18 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-01-08 20:07   ` Dan Cross
2001-01-12  9:32     ` saroj
2001-01-12 17:17       ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-01-12 17:51         ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-16 16:25         ` saroj [this message]
2001-01-12 18:20       ` William K. Josephson
2001-01-12 18:51       ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-16 16:31         ` saroj
2001-01-08 17:19 ` James A. Robinson
2001-01-08 19:21   ` Howard Trickey
2001-01-09  9:38     ` Andy Newman
2001-01-09  9:54       ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-10  0:16 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-01-11  9:50   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-08 15:17 John A. Murdie
2001-01-08 10:29 John A. Murdie
2001-01-08 15:06 ` Mark C. Otto
2001-01-02 10:54 steve.simon
2001-01-03  8:29 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-05  9:49   ` [9fans] " John E. Gwyn
2001-01-05 14:52     ` Boyd Roberts
2000-12-27 19:26 James A. Robinson
2001-01-02 17:44 ` John E. Gwyn
2001-01-05  9:48 ` Allan J. Heim
2001-01-05 14:54   ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-05 19:29     ` Steve Kilbane
2001-01-06 17:53       ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-07  1:20         ` Steve Kilbane
2000-08-19 21:44 Boyd Roberts

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