Re: Specifying all biz rules in relational data

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> > about 5 or 6 years ago, when XML was just starting to swallow the
world's
> > mindshare, Phil (a colleague) noted that he had built programs "with
> > tagged text files" back in the (late, i gather) '60s. he was a DEC guy,
> > so it may have been something they dreamed up. but i remember doing
> > the same sort of thing with stat packages in the '70s. Phil was not
> > impressed.
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> When I first learned HTML, it reminded me for all the world of DEC
RUNOFF.
> Except for the hyperlinks. Those reminded me of pointers in network
> databases.

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 Received on Mon Oct 04 2004 - 05:18:22 CEST