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- From: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@icl.com>
- To: XML Dev <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 10:37:57 +0100
> Gak, what a thought. Can we really use tools that differ by
> a complexity of 100 from other tools? Consider the idea of
> a programming language 100 times simpler than C, or 100 times
> more complex than Standard C++. Can the mind really grasp
> such a thing?
Remember PL/I? (My mind couldn't grasp it, but I guess others could).
The SQL 1986 standard was 104 pages long. The 1992 standard was 607 pages. I
don't have a final copy of SQL3 but my draft copy (a couple of years old) is
1270 pages.
What's the ratio for XML:SGML?
Mike Kay
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