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• Subject: Re: heritage (was Re: SGML on the Web)
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 10:54:22 -0400
• In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0210061023130.21059-100000@w...>

Sam Hunting writes:
> Heck, there's *plenty* of stuff SGMLers didn't invent!

There does seem to be a recurring theme in software that pretty much
everything we do today had its foundations laid before I was born (1970)
and certainly before I started programming (1981, Sinclair ZX81).  

We've got more and more hardware and network capabilities, but mostly
apply them to more of the same with an ever-broader audience. Hopefully,
at any rate.

> Anything it
> takes marketing muscle to put over, for a start ;-)

That's one way to look at it!

Someone (Mike Champion?) asked a while ago if there was a catalog of the
more obscure corners of SGML.  That still might be worth pursuing,
though I'm not sure how to go about it.

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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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