Re: groff's C++ dialect (was: Plan 9 man added a new macro for man page references)

2021-09-04 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi, James! At 2021-08-26T10:22:00-0400, James K. Lowden wrote: > On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 01:57:49 +1000 > "G. Branden Robinson" wrote: > > > A tradition, acquired at tremendous cost, has grown up > > around C++ over the past couple of decades that a project in the > > language is unmanageable and un

Re: groff's C++ dialect (was: Plan 9 man added a new macro for man page references)

2021-08-26 Thread James K. Lowden
On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 01:57:49 +1000 "G. Branden Robinson" wrote: > A tradition, acquired at tremendous cost, has grown up > around C++ over the past couple of decades that a project in the > language is unmanageable and unmaintainable if you don't > articulate--and stick to--the subset of it that

groff's C++ dialect (was: Plan 9 man added a new macro for man page references)

2021-08-13 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[Alex, this starting to meander afield from man page issues] At 2021-08-13T14:30:42+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi Branden, > > G. Branden Robinson wrote on Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 12:58:31AM +1000: > > > (Did I digress some?) > > To digress even more: combining the enigmatic character of TeX err