Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 20:07:18 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>, Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr>, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is Thot (WYSIWIG editor) for you? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970514195519.311z-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199705150029.RAA22701@rah.star-gate.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Amancio Hasty wrote: > when you get a chance, check out http://rah.star-gate.com/languages.html > it discusses the theory of their meta language thingy. Hm... I'm not sure what to think of this. They seem to have expended a great deal of effort to re-invent SGML. The S language implements most SGML concepts, but in an incompatible form with no obvious advantage over SGML. Similarly the P and T languages look to be an implementation of the concepts in DSSSL, although in a more limited fashion. So, the philosophy of Thot is more or less the same as SGML and DSSSL almost exactly, but with an independent implementation. DSSSL is quite new (1996), but SGML has been around over a decade so I find this re-inventing of the wheel very puzzling and somewhat sad. I'll definately have to take a closer look at the code itself when I get a chance. -john
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.96.970514195519.311z-100000>