Re:The Development of the C Language (1993)
by btilly on Thursday December 17, 2015 @05:54PM
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More hints that this is true.
This paper was presented at the Second History of Programming Languages conference, Cambridge, Mass., April, 1993. That's the same month that CERN decided to publicly release source for the very first web server and client.
There is no conceivable way that DMR would have both found out about the web and chosen to write in HTML at that point in history.
However at that point Dennis Richie had 20 years of experience with troff. The only other reasonable choice at that point was TeX. And the output looks nothing like what I would expect from TeX. So it almost certainly was troff.
This paper was presented at the Second History of Programming Languages conference, Cambridge, Mass., April, 1993. That's the same month that CERN decided to publicly release source for the very first web server and client.
There is no conceivable way that DMR would have both found out about the web and chosen to write in HTML at that point in history.
However at that point Dennis Richie had 20 years of experience with troff. The only other reasonable choice at that point was TeX. And the output looks nothing like what I would expect from TeX. So it almost certainly was troff.