manpage writing [rst, asciidoc, pod] was [Re: What should Python apps do when asked to show help?]

[Rustom Mody]

On Saturday, April 30, 2016 at 9:36:42 AM UTC+5:30, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Rustom Mody  writes:
> > As with all things rms, its taking him decades to realize this defeat
> > [Latest makeinfo is 18 times slower than previous version!!
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2013-01/msg00012.html
> 
> Wait, what's it written in now?

Have you any data that its moved on?

At that point what I gleaned was that original makeinfo was in C
New one was rewritten in perl.
[Yeah they could have taken a leaf out of pandoc -- written in haskell]