[TUHS] IANAL. Kimball has ruled

Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com
Fri Jul 18 03:27:32 AEST 2008


On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 01:12:05PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Indeed, both ditroff and Plan 9 troff are directly descended from
> JFO's code.  Only groff is independent, which just goes to show what a
> heroic programmer (in a quiet way) James Clark really is (as do nsgmls
> and jing/trang).

As a still-using-troff sort of person, I can vouch for James.  Wow.  
Cool stuff.  And groff really is mucho better than the original.
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