"C" wish list.

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.UUCP
Tue Oct 29 08:02:22 AEST 1985


> 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



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