Hi James > On Oct 14, 2020, at 12:08 PM, James K. Lowden <jklow...@schemamania.org> > wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:13:39 -0400 > Federico Lucifredi <flucifr...@acm.org> wrote: > >>> For man pages, what you need is knowledge of the man macro package, >>> originally written by James Clark [...] >> >> I removed the ?originally? bit, which I believe corrects the flaw (if >> I am reading you correctly). > > If I may, why not just strike the whole phrase? For your purpose, does > it matter who wrote the man macros? That information is easily > obtained directly from the groff documentation. > > groff is written in C++, designed by Bjarne Stroustrup of Bell Labs ….
:-). we are editing a 10-year-old blog, the exercise has reached diminishing returns. I wanted to correct the flaw Ingo pointed out, as it could be read to imply something factually incorrect (creator vs implementor), but otherwise I feel like it is better to leave old writings as immutable and pen new ones. > --jkl > Best -F2
