[TUHS] GNUism in groff tests, was: pic anomalies

Doug McIlroy doug at cs.dartmouth.edu
Sun Jan 5 00:23:39 AEST 2020


> I was always sad that the development of C that became Alef never got off
> the ground.

It eventuated in Go, which is definitely aloft, and responds
to Mike Bianchi's specific desires. Go also has a library
ecosystem, which C does not.

With its clean parallelism, Go may be suitable for handling
the complexity of whole-paragraph typsetting in the face
of unexpected traps, line-length changes, etc.

Doug


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