I'm painfully aware of the difference between semantic and presentation markup, and wish that there was more support for semantic markup.
I don't do BASIC, but I do Perl. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2025 11:43 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: In IBM-land, AFP means... External Message: Use Caution On Wed, 18 Jun 2025 20:33:14 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >When it was first released, all output was to dead trees so "printing" made >sense. Displaying it on a screen isn't printing, hence the change to >presentation. > In publishing, there's a distinction between "Presentation markup" and "Semantic markup". And in BASIC, "PRINT" (still) means "Display on Terminal." -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
