🚀 go-pugleaf

Carsten Bormann <cabo@cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:
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|   Erik, please scratch that summary.

OK.

|   Given that your article was a rebuttal to my attempt to debunk Brian
|   Travis' thesis (quoting below), taking it apart in all possible ways,
|   I simply read it as support for that thesis.  Rereading it, I notice
|   that your objective may have been that of simply defending SGML
|   against my criticism.

Yes, that was my objective.

|   >     So, the next time someone asks you what SGML is, instead
|   >     of saying "it is a language used to markup text", say
|   >     "SGML is a powerful tool that can be used to describe,
|   >     model, and interchange data." </>
|
|   My apologies if you agree with the consensus that is building in this
|   group, i.e. that SGML is useful, but not particularly powerful for
|   this purpose.

If we strike "model", I think we're much better off.

|   I'm still not at ease with calling my initial article "sour grape
|   whining" or with accusations such as that I tried to stop HyTime in
|   its tracks or that I have a hidden agenda (except, maybe, that of
|   helping advance the state of the art).

In keeping with the tone of your article, I retract those comments.

|   So, please let's try to end the "battle between Erik and Carsten", as
|   another poster put it, and rather try to further our understanding of
|   the role of SGML within the future world of information architectures.

Yes!  This would indeed be useful, and I look forward to your
contributions.

Best regards,
</Erik>
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