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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
Cc: Computer Old Farts Followers <coff@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [COFF] Scribe (Typesetting System) and Unix
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 12:00:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220113200057.GI7175@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W5n5EcMNn61yJ56w9Tb2J6hoYO2S-7-68ciYMpjB7WzDg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 01:16:42PM -0500, Dan Cross wrote:
> Oh sure, but I didn't mean in the sense of code, but rather,
> philosophically and design-wise. Both seem to be influenced by Scribe's
> idea of separation of content and presentation (an idea reinvented a decade
> later in HTML+CSS).

Funny, Marc Donner, then at Morgan Stanley, was sort of a mentor of mine.
One day I was discussing with him all the stuff I had done with *roff
-ms input, I have scripts to make html slides out of that, another that
makes a web site with a site map.

I told him that I really liked it but wasn't sure why.  He said "You
like it because that macro packages says what to do without exposing
how.  That makes it easy to write scripts to spit out in some other
format".  True dat.
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  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-13 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-13  2:04 josh
2022-01-13  2:03 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2022-01-13  3:24 ` Win Treese
2022-01-13 14:56   ` Clem Cole
2022-01-13 15:08     ` John P. Linderman
2022-01-13 16:06       ` Clem Cole
2022-01-13 16:24         ` Warner Losh
2022-01-13 16:39         ` Harald Arnesen
2022-01-13 18:00         ` Bakul Shah
2022-01-13 15:35     ` Dan Cross
2022-01-13 16:02       ` Warner Losh
2022-01-13 16:20         ` Clem Cole
2022-01-13 16:32           ` Warner Losh
2022-01-13 16:42           ` Lars Brinkhoff
2022-01-13 16:52             ` Larry McVoy
2022-01-13 16:54               ` Clem Cole
2022-01-13 17:06               ` Clem Cole
2022-01-13 18:16         ` Dan Cross
2022-01-13 20:00           ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2022-01-13 20:26           ` Chet Ramey
2022-01-13 16:13       ` Charles H Sauer
2022-01-13 22:53     ` David Arnold
2022-01-14  1:53       ` Adam Thornton
2022-01-13  3:26 ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-01-13 16:25   ` Larry McVoy
2022-01-13 16:33   ` Dan Cross
2022-01-13 22:19     ` David Arnold
2022-01-13 13:54 ` Adam Sampson
2022-01-13 16:37   ` Lars Brinkhoff

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