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pklausler on March 12, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: With book on Go, Kernighan guides students at Prin...

As an interesting aside, the article points out that the book was formatted with troff.

kps on March 13, 2016 [–]

As was The C Programming Language 38+ years ago — at about the same time as troff was rewritten in C. Maybe it would have been appropriate to rewrite troff in Go for this one!

pklausler on March 13, 2016 | [–]

And by the same programmer, namely the author.

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