Mike Bianchi <mbian...@foveal.com> wrote: |True confession: Brian Kernighan is my hero. (stories upon request) | |In this talk, starting at about 41:45, he talks about the history of \ |creating |the eqn, pic, grap "little languages". |I offer it for those who might want a sense of how groff wound up where \ |it is |and why it survives. | |Interestingly, Brian repeatedly says "troff's time has past". |For some of us, the response is "not for me". | | Computer Science - Brian Kernighan on successful language design | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg4U4r_AgJU | | "How to succeed in language design without really trying."
Thanks for that pointer. Interestingly he mispronounces TeX as Tech, and thus does not turn the editor slightly moist. :) Regarding myself, i collect and collect and collect, and will finally have been drowned.. or get out with some nice roff that i will use until i die (which hopefully lasts some time). Bernd Warken said 2025, and maybe he is right. I mean, maybe others jump in, too, people started knitting again after so and so many years were it has been completely uncool. --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)
