Re: Languages From Hell -- your favorite one could walk again!

adam@tucson.princeton.edu (Adam Justin Thornton)
Mon, 26 Sep 1994 23:04:08 GMT

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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 23:04:08 GMT

Gary Merrill <sasghm@unx.sas.com> wrote:
>[suggestions for hideous old languages sought]
>Dare one nominate something like SGML?


Huh? It's neither all that hideous, nor really obsolete. Unless I miss my
guess entirely, HTML is a DTD on top of SGML, isn't it?


It's certainly no worse than troff. And I was writing mainframe
documentation in a subset of it only last year.


Adam
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