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• Subject: heritage (was Re: SGML on the Web)
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 09:49:44 -0400
• In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0210060926190.8687-100000@w...>

Sam Hunting wrote:
> JITTs promise a way to do CONCUR, DATATAG, and variant concrete
> syntaxes right -- with great gains in efficiency. 

One of these days at a markup conference someone will give a
presentation and an SGML guru will stand up and say "wow, that's a
completely new concept.  SGML and its users never thought of anything
like that."

I look forward to it happening, but have to admit that I have doubts.
The "great gains in efficiency" and changes in approach suggest that the
reinvention process is not a total loss, however.

And JITTs look fascinating, and Patrick Durusau's on-stage conversation
with a real live tree at Extreme Markup was unforgettable!

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Simon St.Laurent - SSL is my TLA
http://simonstl.com may be my URI
http://monasticxml.org may be my ascetic URI
urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.6320 is another possibility altogether

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