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Indeed. I hope Linux distributions will follow with replacing Groff. It's a huge, slow, ancient system and for the purpose of formatting manpages it can be repl
by wladimir 16y ago
Indeed. I hope Linux distributions will follow with replacing Groff. It's a huge, slow, ancient system and for the purpose of formatting manpages it can be replaced by a 15-line Python script.
(this has nothing to do with C++ versus C, simply with removing some bloated UNIX legacy code)
- JoachimSchipper 16y agoWell, 15 lines is a bit optimistic. mandoc is ~25 000 lines of C, and not yet complete.
- wladimir 16y agoI was figuratively speaking. In Python it'd be less lines than C, but still a substantial project.