Re: Sausage Software: the products

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From: Mike McBain
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 00:00

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"Scott Kane - MSA" <msa@micronexus.net> writes:

>>Your saving grace is WYSIWYG editors that do the code for you.
>>
>>In anycase HTML is a form of programming language.
>>
>>From a programmer's perspective


>HTML is a _programming language_  ?  What twot.  It barely rates as a macro
>language.  Would you call RTF a "programming language" as well?   <LOL>


HTML is a derivative of SGML in which tags are defined by its DTD. SGML's focus
is definitely on the packaging of *information* content, not on the means
to achieve a particularly appearance. To believe otherwise is to misunderstand
what SGML (and its successor XML) was designed for.
-- 
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From: mjm@silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au (Mike McBain)
Subject: Re: Sausage Software: the products
Date: 1998/04/30
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