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Re: Programming Languages for Technical Communication
Subject:Re: Programming Languages for Technical Communication From:Richard Mateosian <srm -at- CYBERPASS -dot- NET> Date:Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:10:29 -0800
>A far more important question is what programming languages a writer
>needs to actually do technical writing.
Interesting website with several well written white papers. They define a
content database -- called a microdocument architecture -- from which they
construct documents on the fly in response to requests arriving at a
website and deliver them as HTML.
They base their architecture on the relational database model. This is the
kind of application that seems to me to be ideally suited to an object or
object-relational approach.
Very interesting ideas. I think we're all headed for something like this.
...RM
Richard Mateosian <srm -at- cyberpass -dot- net>
Review Editor, IEEE Micro Berkeley, CA
