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There were other reasons for mandoc other than groff being written in C++.
Yes there were. Groff is a general typesetting system created by accretion over the 45 or so years. It is fairly buggy and messy and not really in wide use any more (DrJ is going to kill me for this statement). Mandoc is traditional document preparation system for BSD Unix. It is NOT a general purpose typesetting system (not yet ). It is very simple, very small (Groff is indeed small in its own right comparing to things like TeX), written in C. Groff was hard to maintain in the base. Was not upgraded regularly and flat out obsolete. Now OpenBSD has in ports the latest and the greatest version of Groff and in its base mandoc.
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