Bingo. When I found myself with some time to spare and a burning need to figure out how OO Perl worked, I created Roff as an OO exercise in about a day. I learned a lot about how to implment a simple OO Perl program, and although I left myself room to expand it into a more complicated group of classes, never did get around to it.

This follows on from writing a version of roff in C sometime in February 1993 after I broke my leg and was without a computer for six weeks. In a frenzy of 14-hour days, I wrote a really pretty cool version that even did micro-justification on the dot matrix printer I'd rented.

The nice thing about roff is that you can just keep on adding features to it -- there's no limit to when it's done.

Which can be a good thing or a bad thing. :)

Alex / talexb / Toronto

"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

In reply to Re^2: Back to Perl by talexb
in thread Back to Perl by ChilliHead

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