Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> writes: > At that point what I gleaned was that original makeinfo was in C > New one was rewritten in perl.
The previous one was definitely written in C and I've looked at the code some. I hadn't known there was a new one. The C one was actually the second one. The first one was written in Emacs Lisp but it was painfully slow on the hardware of that era. The C version was cumbersome by comparison. If they wanted to get rid of the C version now that the hardware is 100x faster or more, it's amusing that they did a Perl rewrite instead of reviving the Lisp version. Pandoc has a significant user base now though, and it looks like it also supports texinfo. So I wonder what the new Makeinfo does that pandoc doesn't. Maybe pandoc doesn't support Info? That could be added, I'm sure. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
