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Re:OpenBSD base now free of C++ by wladimir on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @03:29AM (#2326449)
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)

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Re:OpenBSD base now free of C++ by JoachimSchipper on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @05:48AM (#2326707)
Well, 15 lines is a bit optimistic. mandoc is ~25 000 lines of C, and not yet complete.
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Re:OpenBSD base now free of C++ by wladimir on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @06:29AM (#2326777)
I was figuratively speaking. In Python it'd be less lines than C, but still a substantial project.
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