RE: [Groff] [off] micro-typography

[P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of
>Bernd Warken
>Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 1:06 PM
>To: Larry Kollar; address@hidden
>Subject: Re: [Groff] [off] micro-typography
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>On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:43:08PM -0500, Larry Kollar wrote:
>>
>> > Of course, choosing an embedded language must be done in terms of the
>> > target audience which is *not* jaded old hackers
>>
>> Oh well, I *was* about to suggest awk. :-)
>>
>> But seriously, given the nature of the task at hand, the
>> language ought to be geared toward handling strings and
>> patterns.
>>
>POSIX sh or bash or Korn shell?

I was honestly thinking about python, ruby, scheme(whatever flavor,
probably guile) and perl in that particular order. Someone did mention
INTERCAL...