Re: Specifying all biz rules in relational data

"Anne & Lynn Wheeler" <lynn_at_garlic.com> wrote in message news:ud5zzyt7a.fsf_at_mail.comcast.net...
> "Dawn M. Wolthuis" <dwolt_at_tincat-group.comREMOVE> writes:
> > I didn't google it to research the origins, but I don't think runoff was
> > particularly DEC. I wrote a COBOL text for a course using RUNOFF on a
Prime
> > computer in 1981. I thought it was a spinoff from Waterloo script (and
I
> > don't know the origin of that either). --dawn
>
> waterloo script was clone of cms' script. cms script was originally
> done at the science center by madnick and then after gml was invented,
> gml-tag processing support was added to script.
>
> runoff was originally done for ctss ... some of the people went to 5th
> floor, 545 tech sq to work on mutlics ... and some went to science
> center on 4th floor, 545 tech sq.
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Good info. I could google around myself, but do you happen to know if Tex fits into this anywhere? Did it arise separately or is it related to cms script and runoff? Thanks. --dawn Received on Tue Oct 05 2004 - 01:17:47 CEST