From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id fa1fa10b for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2020 14:24:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 27E7E9B42B; Sun, 5 Jan 2020 00:24:13 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 131FD9518A; Sun, 5 Jan 2020 00:23:47 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 6336A9516B; Sun, 5 Jan 2020 00:23:45 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail.cs.dartmouth.edu (mail.cs.dartmouth.edu [129.170.212.100]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E5AA995165 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2020 00:23:41 +1000 (AEST) Received: from tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU (tahoe.cs.dartmouth.edu [129.170.212.20]) by mail.cs.dartmouth.edu (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id 004ENdgi1398254 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2020 09:23:39 -0500 Received: from tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU (8.15.2/8.14.3) with ESMTP id 004ENdw2004200 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2020 09:23:39 -0500 Received: (from doug@localhost) by tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id 004ENd7b004197 for tuhs@tuhs.org; Sat, 4 Jan 2020 09:23:39 -0500 From: Doug McIlroy Message-Id: <202001041423.004ENd7b004197@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2020 09:23:39 -0500 To: tuhs@tuhs.org User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [TUHS] GNUism in groff tests, was: pic anomalies X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "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