Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:56:27 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Clang - what is the story? Message-ID: <20120123195627.GA32692@slackbox.erewhon.net> In-Reply-To: <4F1D2048.2040107@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20120121154313.53d3fec6@gumby.homeunix.com> <20120122070205.GA13081@hemlock.hydra> <4F1BB640.2050707@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20120122074558.GA22918@hemlock.hydra> <4F1BD17C.3030209@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20120122123748.GA26579@hemlock.hydra> <20120122203302.GA90962@slackbox.erewhon.net> <20120122212653.GA2489@hemlock.hydra> <4F1C9370.8080609@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <4F1D2048.2040107@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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--pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 08:54:32AM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 22/01/2012 22:53, Da Rock wrote: > > What part is that? I thought it had to be all c... >=20 > Not at all. clang and llvm are themselves written in C++. >=20 > However, it's groff that Roland mentioned as the canonical example of > C++ in base. And people have been grumbling about that for years, up to the point that a viable and indeed much smaller replacement (mandoc, in the textproc/mdocml port) has been written in C. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk8du2sACgkQEnfvsMMhpyWIigCgkrVE2YImkDHu/1ZTAFyo+T8N biEAn14IJA0NEevwqkmRfKoVBHReiBvp =MCZS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt--
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