HTML as a language

[James Bass]

The recent thread on Latin was occasionally mildly
amusing;  the current thread on HTML is a bore.

There are several thousand sites on the WWW that
cover every item mentioned in this thread.  Is it
becoming the object of this List to replicate the WWW?

Jim Bass

-----Original Message-----
From: Neal Evenhuis <neale at BISHOP.BISHOPMUSEUM.ORG>
To: Multiple recipients of list TAXACOM <TAXACOM at CMSA.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 11:14 PM
Subject: Re: HTML as a language


>On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Curtis Clark wrote:
>[SNIP]
>Well, I guess this shows how fast we can digress when we're having fun. My
>original posting was in answer to the question of what might be the most
>popular SECOND "language" in the world. I thought I'd "stretch" the
>definition and include HTML (since it IS by definition a language) to make
>people think about its use on the web and how many people will be using
>HTML whether they know it or not as a "second" language" when they create
>web pages.
>
>I had never intended HTML to be proposed as a standard language for
>descriptions! I have no idea where that notion originated.
>
>Aloha,
>
>Neal Evenhuis