Re: Ig Nobel documentation
Oh you fresh kids! SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) came out of
Goldfarb, Mosher, and Lorie's (G, M, & L.) efforts in the sixties at IBM to
develop a means of sharing machine-readable large-project documents in
government, law, and industry. It worked real well but only the government
(mostly aerospace and defense contractors) had big enough, long-lived enough
projects to justify implementing it.
Even then (maybe even more so then) documentation efforts were managed on the
quick-and-dirty basis. DocBook-SGML and Framemaker-SGML were both great tools
but never took off - I remember that I even had a GML program that ran on an
AMIGA -- all the futuristic nuts in one box, eh?. But, one has to wonder if
Boeing wishes they had a set of SGML docs for 737 right now.
HTML and XML are both simply document-type declarations within the SGML
standard. Simplified but better suited for the q-and-d work. If you knew SGML,
then you'll surely understand HTML and anything before or since.
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Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2020 20:20:31 -0800
From: Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
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Say what? Ventural Publisher came out in 1986. HTML was not published
until 1995.
On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 3:49 PM John Allred <john2 -at- allrednet -dot- com> wrote:
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text files was a swim for anyone with HTML experience.
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