From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] IANAL. Kimball has ruled
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:27:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080717172732.GK19812@bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080717171205.GD26919@mercury.ccil.org>
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 01:12:05PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Indeed, both ditroff and Plan 9 troff are directly descended from
> JFO's code. Only groff is independent, which just goes to show what a
> heroic programmer (in a quiet way) James Clark really is (as do nsgmls
> and jing/trang).
As a still-using-troff sort of person, I can vouch for James. Wow.
Cool stuff. And groff really is mucho better than the original.
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Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-17 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-17 8:18 Jose R. Valverde
2008-07-17 15:55 ` Gregg C Levine
2008-07-17 15:58 ` Larry McVoy
2008-07-17 16:18 ` Bryan Cantrill
2008-07-17 17:12 ` John Cowan
2008-07-17 17:27 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2008-07-17 17:32 ` Michael Kerpan
2008-07-17 16:33 ` Boyd Lynn Gerber
2008-07-17 17:04 ` Wilko Bulte
2008-07-17 20:51 ` Michael Davidson
[not found] <mailman.1871.1216314893.89381.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2008-07-17 19:55 ` Pepe
2008-07-17 20:22 ` Bryan Cantrill
2008-07-17 22:30 ` Pepe
2008-07-17 20:40 ` Boyd Lynn Gerber
2008-07-18 14:10 ` Jose R. Valverde
2008-07-18 17:03 Michael Davidson
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