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You're off several orders of magnitude. Implementing SGML is a multi-year effort. You don't have to take my word for it, James Clark has said the same (he has i
by tannhaeuser 10y ago
You're off several orders of magnitude. Implementing SGML is a multi-year effort. You don't have to take my word for it, James Clark has said the same (he has implemented SGML and XML, and also DSSSL, the Scheme-based precursor of CSS and XSLT).
[1]: http://drdobbs.com/a-triumph-of-simplicity-james-clark-on-m/184404686 http://drdobbs.com/a-triumph-of-simplicity-james-clark-on-m/...
- kazinator 10y agoAdmittedly, I'm assuming that we can use some typesetting back end; i.e., for instance, we don't have the requirement to generate a typesetter-ready image (or PDF document) without any third-party code; we don't have to do our own font rendering and kerning, etc. Also, I'm assuming we don't have to burn cycles Greenspunning up half of Lisp in some dumb langauge.