From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: tuhs@tuhs.org, groff@gnu.org, g.branden.robinson@gmail.com
Subject: [TUHS] Re: pic
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 00:46:57 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202208120646.27C6kvJE015824@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220812015255.5mexb5ndknnzlhms@illithid>
"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Oh surely. I just don't know what sources those would be, exactly;
> > presumably some derivative he's been shepherded all these years? I
> > wonder what it is....
>
> Per Kernighan's _Unix: A History and a Memoir_ (2020), it seems likely
> that it was simply groff.
Knowing BWK, I personally doubt that he'd have messed with GNU pic
when he has his own copy of the original program that he himself wrote.
I'm also quite sure that he prefers C to C++.
> "Camera-ready copy for this book was produced by the author in Times
> Roman and Helvetica, using groff, ghostscript, and other open source
> Unix tools." (copyright page)
Sure, because he works on Linux and MacOS and the GNU tools are easily
installable and "just work".
Of course, Dan could always just ask Brian what he did. :-)
Arnold
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-12 6:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-09 22:18 [TUHS] Re: SNOBOL and RATSNO Douglas McIlroy
2022-08-09 22:25 ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-10 15:05 ` arnold
2022-08-10 17:14 ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-10 17:37 ` arnold
2022-08-10 17:44 ` [TUHS] Re: SNOBOL and RATSNO [ really pic ] Jon Steinhart
2022-08-10 18:02 ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-10 18:04 ` Jon Steinhart
2022-08-10 18:13 ` [TUHS] Re: pic Michael Kjörling
2022-08-10 18:19 ` Dennis Boone
2022-08-10 18:24 ` Jon Steinhart
2022-08-11 0:10 ` Dan Cross
2022-08-11 12:13 ` arnold
2022-08-11 14:34 ` Dan Cross
2022-08-12 1:52 ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-08-12 6:46 ` arnold [this message]
2022-08-12 20:49 ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-08-11 7:37 ` [TUHS] Re: pic's One-way Information Flow. (Was: SNOBOL and RATSNO) Ralph Corderoy
2022-08-10 18:24 ` [TUHS] Re: SNOBOL and RATSNO joe mcguckin
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