Hi Colin, > It would follow from Bjarni's argument, if accepted, that it is > objectively correct (a strong claim!) to install programs in scripting > languages on user systems only after first stripping comments from > them (or perhaps even only after also running them through a compiler, > where available).
But sed, awk, perl, python, ... lex and parse once into an AST or bytecode, removing the recurring cost of comments, etc. that impact groff. So I don't think it's an even comparison. -- Cheers, Ralph.
