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From: Joshua E. Smith <jesmith@k...> >My language isn't anything like LISP or ALGOL, but I think this gets the >point across. It's pretty easy to write programming languages which are >XML-Conformant. >From one point of view, all interaction actions with a computer corresponds to "programming" in a language (in that a grammar, however complicated, can be constructed to model it: I suppose this is an implication of Church's Thesis). While true, that viewpoint deprives "programming" of its specific meaning; it makes "programming language"=="markup language"=="interaction modeling language". It ignores that a markup language is designed to be data with processing instructions embedded, while a programming language is processing instuctions with data embedded. Of course, there are middle grounds: there are data-ish programming languages such as LISP, and programmish DTDs such as ISMID. If you are looking at making programming languages in XML, look at ISMID, which is a compiled format for IETMS (Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals). You can see it at the US Navy site (www.ietm.net) or (better) at the ISO site: http://www.jtc1.org/Navigation.asp?Area=Structure&Mode=Browse&SubComm=SC *space*34&x=7&y=6 then go "documents" then search for "MID" (remember to click the "Search by title" button") then clock on document 7, "Revised Text of MID". Rick Jelliffe xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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