GNU Texinfo 5.0 Released 173
Four years after the last release, version 5.0 of Texinfo, the GNU documentation language, has been released. The primary highlight is a new implementation of makeinfo info in Perl rather than C. Although slower, the new version offers several advantages: cleaner code using a structured representation of the input document, Unicode support, and saner support for multiple output backends. There are over a dozen other improvements including better formatting of URLs, improved cross-manual references, and a program to convert Perl POD documentation to Texinfo.
Things you don't hear every day (Score:5, Funny)
"Nobody could understand the source code anymore without massive doses of caffeine... ao we decided to rewrite the whole thing in Perl."
Re:Perl hater (Score:2, Funny)
That high-level C crap is for wannabes, son...real men create their programs in native binary by manipulating the bits on their drive platters with pointy magnets
Re:Perl??? (Score:3, Funny)
C and shell scripting is good enough for me and it should be for any GNU project. I do not use half-way solutions such as Perl. I use Java when bash and C becomes too messy. The idea is to reduce your inventory to a strict minimum.
This reminds me of a Dilbert strip. (Score:1, Funny)
Let me get this straight. These guys ported and anachronistic piece of software from one dead language to a slightly less dead language, and then bragged about using structured programming techniques as a feature.
Hang on, I think Scott Adams has something to say about this.
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2013-02-11/ [dilbert.com]
Re:Things you don't hear every day (Score:4, Funny)
"Nobody could understand the source code anymore without massive doses of caffeine... ao we decided to rewrite the whole thing in Perl."
Oblig xkcd [xkcd.org]
Oblig oblig XKCD (Score:4, Funny)
Lisp
http://xkcd.com/224/ [xkcd.com]
Re:Do not want (Score:5, Funny)
I do not have the time, once again, to look up those obscure keyboard commands so that I may navigate laboriously through the documentation.
What obscure keyboard commands? They're just the keybindings for the help system of the One True Editor. If you are using something inferior and have therefore memorized some truly obscure keyboard commands instead, how is that their fault?
Re:Do not want (Score:2, Funny)
You, sir, have no idea what the One True Editor actually is:
http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html