SGML: Memory of Yuri Rubinsky (1952-1996)

html-wg-95q4: Re: Yuri Rubinsky's Death
Re: Yuri Rubinsky's Death
Peter Flynn (pflynn@curia.ucc.ie)

Glenn wrote:

> I don't know how many of you knew Yuri, but his work on and

> evangelizing of SGML has always been an inspiration to the industry

> and to those who knew him.  The success of HTML owes a significant

> debt to the vision he brought to the realm of SGML and its enabling

> technology.

I shall always remember his comment to me when I mentioned HTML in a

presentation to the SGML conference in 1990 (a time when there wasn't

even a parseable DTD). He just said, "Hey, imagine if this took off -

we could have the whole world using SGML in a few years."


///Peter