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- From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@allette.com.au>
- To: "XML Developers' List" <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 01:13:09 +1000
From: Joshua E. Smith <jesmith@kaon.com>
>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
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