[TUHS] [groff] Brian Kernighan on the evoution of eqn, pic, grap into troff

[Nemo]

On 8 May 2018 at 00:11, Bakul Shah <bakul at bitblocks.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 07 May 2018 17:39:58 -0700 Jon Steinhart <jon at fourwinds.com> wrote:
>>
>> IMHO, the tex language is too ugly.  I much prefer troff.
[...]
> Though I vastly prefer TeX/LaTeX/XeLaTeX over troff (unlike
> most folks on this list)
[...]

Oh, this has the makings of another Mygol vs Yourtran flame war.

As an inflamatory datum point, I was a grad student when TeX was
installed and the secretaries all learnt TeX.  When LaTeX came in, we
all dumped *roff.

N.