[XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

[Ross Moore]

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On 05/10/2010, at 4:13 AM, maxwell <maxwell at umiacs.umd.edu> wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 06:22:13 -0700 (PDT), Apostolos Syropoulos
> <asyropoulos at yahoo.com> wrote:
> [not sure who is being quoted here:]
>>>    TeX was developed as a  subset of SGML

It's pretty clear that Keith meant to say that XML was developed as a subset of SGML.
This is just one of many typos in his postings; this being one that really does require correction.

>>> 
>> TeX as a programming language is a derivative of LISP 
> 
> I'm puzzled here.  Re the '>>' line: AFAIK, TeX was developed before SGML
> existed; XML is derived from SGML (not sure it's strictly a subset), maybe
> that's '>>' meant to write.  
> 
> As for the '>' line, the first version of TeX was implemented in SAIL,
> which was an Algol-like programming language. The current version is
> written in WEB, which is a Pascal-based system + documentation; it is often
> converted to C for compilation.  And TeX itself doesn't look anything like
> LISP to me, but maybe I'm missing s.t.?  (Like a CAR and a CDR and...)
> 
> Can someone enlighten me/us here?
> 
>   Mike Maxwell
> 

Hope this helps,

      Ross