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Re: [Groff] Typesetting Markup Language (TML) - a Superset of Groff


From: Doug McIlroy
Subject: Re: [Groff] Typesetting Markup Language (TML) - a Superset of Groff
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 09:05:38 -0500
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> As Dijkstra said of Algol, "an improvement over many of its successors"

In the interest of accuracy, Hoare said it in "Hints on programming
language design",
 http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/73/403/CS-TR-73-403.pdf
His exact words were
"it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on
nearly all its successors".

doug



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