Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Sosman Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: NSGMLS ?? Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:55:03 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <0l81f75fnmkcre26jlebekjp6mjkt7dji2@4ax.com> <25310252.112.1324395860425.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prmw6> <15419827.340.1324479717115.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prmw6> <9916f7phfrmc4bai4lcdbvqe8sroo1u2h9@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:55:07 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="HSlJAUb3pGXi3i7ZL/HoAw"; logging-data="5880"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18GAYn7WYyEnucTSkzELe9T" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: <9916f7phfrmc4bai4lcdbvqe8sroo1u2h9@4ax.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:R9dRYfaJhaw00uM2Iwv2ZGaxSo0= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:10946 On 12/22/2011 5:38 AM, Roedy Green wrote: > On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:01:57 -0800 (PST), Lew > wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : > >> >> What evidence do you have that it's an acronym? If the founding link (that >> first link in the Google search) doesn't mention it, how would any other source >> be authoritative? > > Because it contains another acronym SGML Standard Generalised Markup > Language ... just as ROEDY contains Oxford English Dictionary? -- Eric Sosman esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid