From: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
To: Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org, larry.kollar@me.com
Subject: Re: [TUHS] GNUism in groff tests, was: pic anomalies
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2020 14:57:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200103135715.S1lyA%steffen@sdaoden.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202001022138.002Lc0Up132858@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>
Doug McIlroy wrote in <202001022138.002Lc0Up132858@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>:
|I have always marveled at folks who can maintain multiple
|versions of software, but Larry's dispatch from the
|trenches reveals hurdles I hadn't imagined. Kudos for
|keeping groff alive.
I concur. And as everything in life is a wave, it all comes back
as times go by. Some even agree to die younger than nature allows
humans ("Er [Der Mensch] lebt wenn's hochkommt Hundert Jahr" [1]),
because they have seen it all in the past, and are getting all too
bored!
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ayethw-ouQ
|Speaking of which, many thanks to all who pitched in
|on the %% nit that I reported. The instant response
|compares rather favorably to an open case I've been
|following in gcc, which was originally filed in 2002.
|
|Doug
--End of <202001022138.002Lc0Up132858@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
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