Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:

> It is not just one file and afaik, *none* of it is written in
> Perl. Some of it is C, some of it is TeX, some of it is Java
> (apparently: I haven't looked at tex4ht for some years and I don't
> remember any Java in there before, but there is some now), a large
> amount is just text config files.

I didn't take a look at the code, but mk4ht is written in perl:

,----
| ls -la /usr/share/texmf/bin/noarch/mk4ht
| lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 47 2010-09-07 02:10 /usr/share/texmf/bin/noarch/mk4ht -> ../../../../share/texmf/scripts/tex4ht/mk4ht.pl
`----

Charles

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