Don't blame physicists. We were just trying to organize and describe in a rational, rule-based language the sorts of document behavior humans find acceptable a

Don't blame physicists. We were just trying to organize and describe in a rational, rule-based language the sorts of document behavior humans find acceptable and useful. WYSIWYG would not have worked any better because deep inside the WYSIWYG system there would need to be some HTML like system to describe the document, its styles, its layout, etc.