#documentengineering — Public Fediverse posts
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There’s still time to submit a long paper to ACM #DocEng25: share your document-related research and submit a paper by April 29!
Short papers and demos are due June 17.
(For all categories, abstracts are due a week before).
#DocEng2025 #DocEng #DocumentEngineering
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What’s especially interesting is that Don Chamberlin isn’t just some random IBMer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_D._Chamberlin). And he wasn’t only involved with Quill SGML editor, but also with the Quilt XML query language, which heavily influenced XQuery (he was one of the editors of the W3C XQuery 1.0 recommendation).
#XMLPrague #REXX #SGML #HistoryOfComputing #DocumentEngineering
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In my talk for the 2019 #XMLPrague paper “History and the Future of Markup” http://archive.xmlprague.cz/2019/files/xmlprague-2019-proceedings.pdf#page=335 I speculated about the use of #REXX as a language for #SGML tree manipulation.
Last night I “discovered” that REXX had indeed been used for this at IBM, and Goldfarb knew about it: namely in the experimental Quill editor running on an experimental windowing system on an experimental operating system on the IBM RT PC… (see, e.g., https://doi.org/10.1145/62506.62524)