[email protected] (zMan) writes: > OK, it's Friday afternoon, so time to broaden this a bit: Is HTML a > programming language?
HTML derived from SGML: http://infomesh.net/html/history/early which was ISO standard of GML ... misc. posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml invented in 1969 at the science center ... misc. posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech GML is derived from the initial of the last names of the people at the science center inventing GML. GML markup capability was added to cms script command ... which had started out as document formating using "dot" formating commands ... from CTSS runoff. One of the first major corporate documents done (other than cp67 & cms documents from the science center) was the 370 architecture "redbook". The 370 architecture redbook could be formated as either the full document ... or just the "principles of operation" subset ... at the time was about half the size of the full "redbook" (redbook comes from the color of the red 3-ring binder that was used for the full manual). there were old jokes about whole organizations that appeared to have formated documents as their only work product (i.e. specialized in being "script programmers" ... as opposed to strictly gml programmers) slightly related topic drift ("powerpoint programmers") ... couple recent posts in part of thread that got into talking about people spending their time formating things (including major activity of officers in iraq) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#19 Idiotic programming style edicts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#20 Idiotic programming style edicts for other drift ... old reference to first webserver outside cern, was on slac/vm system: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/history/earlyweb/history.shtml -- 42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
