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.

• 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.