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Manual for PUB (a markup language in 1971) – Larry Tesler


Annotated user manual for PUB, an early scriptable markup language (like JavaScript). PUB's purpose was to create paginated documents, in a time before Microsoft Word and other desktop publishing tools. PUB was the brainchild of Les Earnest of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL).

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