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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



  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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