Re: Microsoft and obsolescence (was Re: KDE v. Gnome - don't you guys ever change subject lines when a thread goes off topic?) - Article 1060 - go-pugleaf

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Re: Microsoft and obsolescence (was Re: KDE v. Gnome - don't you guys ever change subject lines when a thread goes off topic?)

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From: Phil
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 00:00

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Nick Andrew wrote:

>>Rubbish. It would be quite easy to devise a format that allows 
>>new features to be added, but still lets old software read the new
>>files, igniring new features where necessary. In fast Microsoft has
>>such a format, it is called rtf. 
>
>HTML being one such, SGML being a more-generic solution...

Not quite true. SGML is a metalanguage, used to describe markup
languages. HTML is a markup language described in SGML, so it's an
instance of SGML, not a subset. XML is a true subset of SGML, and thus
again a metalanguage.

Phil
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Subject: Re: Microsoft and obsolescence (was Re: KDE v. Gnome - don't you guys ever change subject lines when a thread goes off topic?)
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