Re: CSS and SGML document formatting -Reply from Jon Bosak on 1996-04-26 (www-style@w3.org from April 1996)

From: Jon Bosak <bosak@atlantic-83.eng.sun.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 13:12:33 -0700
To: Bert.Bos@sophia.inria.fr
Cc: www-style@w3.org
Message-Id: <199604262012.NAA10228@boethius.eng.sun.com>

[Bert Bos:]

| You can ask the same question of DSSSL: why did it use a Lisp-like
| syntax instead of SGML?

Because DSSSL is a programming language and SGML is not.

Jon

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Received on Friday, 26 April 1996 16:14:00 UTC