Re: Specifying all biz rules in relational data

From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis_at_SystematicSW.Invalid>
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 01:02:24 GMT
Message-ID: <96s3m0h18vvu26jito7e4titr6p593eesm_at_4ax.com>


On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 18:17:47 -0500 in alt.folklore.computers, "Dawn M. Wolthuis" <dwolt_at_tincat-group.comREMOVE> wrote:

>"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.
><snip>
>
>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?

TeX was designed for mathematical typesetting by Don Knuth and is unlike any other text processor.

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