Wendell Piez wrote:

>This is very interesting advice, but it leaves some questions unaddressed.
>For example, was the doctrine just no good from the start?
>
It was a doctrine driven not by theory but by tool implementation,
I'd say.  Having SGML invented by essentially a computer science
amateur...



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