From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 14 18:08:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA19093 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 14 May 1997 18:08:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA19086 for ; Wed, 14 May 1997 18:08:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA26133; Wed, 14 May 1997 20:07:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 20:07:18 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: Amancio Hasty cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" , Jean-Marc Zucconi , jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is Thot (WYSIWIG editor) for you? In-Reply-To: <199705150029.RAA22701@rah.star-gate.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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