* Re: [TUHS] GNUism in groff tests, was: pic anomalies
@ 2020-01-04 14:23 Doug McIlroy
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From: Doug McIlroy @ 2020-01-04 14:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: tuhs
> I was always sad that the development of C that became Alef never got off
> the ground.
It eventuated in Go, which is definitely aloft, and responds
to Mike Bianchi's specific desires. Go also has a library
ecosystem, which C does not.
With its clean parallelism, Go may be suitable for handling
the complexity of whole-paragraph typsetting in the face
of unexpected traps, line-length changes, etc.
Doug
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* Re: [TUHS] GNUism in groff tests, was: pic anomalies
2020-01-02 21:38 Doug McIlroy
@ 2020-01-03 13:57 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
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From: Steffen Nurpmeso @ 2020-01-03 13:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Doug McIlroy; +Cc: tuhs, larry.kollar
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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* Re: [TUHS] GNUism in groff tests, was: pic anomalies
@ 2020-01-02 21:38 Doug McIlroy
2020-01-03 13:57 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
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From: Doug McIlroy @ 2020-01-02 21:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: tuhs, larry.kollar
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.
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
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