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I was curious about this statement: > The Standard is currently written in troff, which is subject to increasing bit rot as the tools for formatting it evolve.

I was curious about this statement: > The Standard is currently written in troff, which is subject to increasing bit rot as the tools for formatting it evolve. What exactly is bit-rotting? There are multiple maintained troff's out there, and if they are breaking backward compatibility regularly it's news to me.

21 11y ago
Using formats which became less popular and well supported can be considered bit-rotting. For example, having .PCX files in some project today instead of .PNG could be considered a form of bit rotting, because less and less tools support .PCX