[TUHS] roff(7) [ and other related stuff ]

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Sun Jan 2 11:04:58 AEST 2022


On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 7:13 PM Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:


> My big complaint with stuff like Rust, or even Go (sorry Rob), is that they
> picked a different syntax.  Why not just use C syntax and extend it to do
> what you want?  Why must every project redo everything.
>

Why use C syntax?  What was wrong with Fortran, Lisp, or Cobol syntax,
extended to do what you wanted?
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