Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 21:57:12 GMT
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Web projects
World Wide Web projects
Web agents
Suppose World-Wide Web servers had Scheme interpreters linked in
with their executables. Then small Scheme programs could transfer
themselves across the network from server to server to carry out tasks for
their masters, perhaps coming back to a home machine to report on their
results in the end. Scheme is a good choice for such a language because
Scheme implementations are "safe" -- it is easy to guarantee that an
arbitrary Scheme program received by a server can't damage the server or
compromise its security. With proper cryptographic authentication, an
agent can access or commit the user's resources: buy movie tickets, check
his bank account, and so forth.
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TeXinfo->html converter
TeXinfo is a hypertext markup language for writing documentation
used by the Gnu project. Many of the Gnu project's tools, such
as Gnu emacs, gawk, bison, and gcc, are documented using the TeXinfo
system. Documents written in TeXinfo can be either converted into
on-line hypertext documentation, or converted into TeX and then
typeset into paper manuals.
HTML is the the hypertext markup language for the World-Wide Web.
A text processor that converts documents from TeXinfo to HTML would
allow authors to write a single document, in TeXinfo, and provide
it in all three formats.