Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: "C" wish list. Message-ID: <6087@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 17:02:22 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.6087 Posted: Mon Oct 28 17:02:22 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 28-Oct-85 17:02:22 EST References: <335@graffiti.UUCP> <895@rlvd.UUCP>, <946@lll-crg.ARpA> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 11 > PS. The now famous authors of several white books should not be exempt > from /dev/cattleprod. Have your ever seen the insides of the > "portable" device independent troff? ... Go easy on the dear (?) departed Joe Ossanna. Troff was originally written in pdp11 assembler. If you think the source of troff looks grubby, it's partly because it appears to have been more-or-less mechanically translated from assembler! -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry