Technical Communication, February 1st, 1999
One of the inventors of the SGML describes its origins and development from the late 1960s to the 1980s. Generalized markup had its roots at IBM and resulted from efforts to solve the data representation problem. It was developed not as an alternative but as a motivator to all processing.
The wonderful SGML '96 conference and its theme have awakened all sorts of interesting memories and ideas, going back over the nearly thirty years that I've been involved with generalized markup. I'd like to share some of them with you. But as this memoir will be short, idiosyncratic, focused on events in wh...
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