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		wladimir on March 15, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenBSD base now free of C++ Indeed. I hope Linux distributions will follow with replacing Groff. It's a huge, slow, ancient system and for the purpose of formatting manpages it can be replaced by a 15-line Python script. (this has nothing to do with C++ versus C, simply with removing some bloated UNIX legacy code)

JoachimSchipper on March 15, 2011 [–]

Well, 15 lines is a bit optimistic. mandoc is ~25 000 lines of C, and not yet complete.

wladimir on March 15, 2011 | [–]

I was figuratively speaking. In Python it'd be less lines than C, but still a substantial project.

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