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On 05/10/2010, at 4:13 AM, maxwell <maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 06:22:13 -0700 (PDT), Apostolos Syropoulos
> <asyropou...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> [not sure who is being quoted here:]
>>> TeX was developed as a subset of SGML
It's pretty clear that Keith meant to say that XML was developed as a subset of
SGML.
This is just one of many typos in his postings; this being one that really does
require correction.
>>>
>> TeX as a programming language is a derivative of LISP
>
> I'm puzzled here. Re the '>>' line: AFAIK, TeX was developed before SGML
> existed; XML is derived from SGML (not sure it's strictly a subset), maybe
> that's '>>' meant to write.
>
> As for the '>' line, the first version of TeX was implemented in SAIL,
> which was an Algol-like programming language. The current version is
> written in WEB, which is a Pascal-based system + documentation; it is often
> converted to C for compilation. And TeX itself doesn't look anything like
> LISP to me, but maybe I'm missing s.t.? (Like a CAR and a CDR and...)
>
> Can someone enlighten me/us here?
>
> Mike Maxwell
>
Hope this helps,
Ross
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