"mis" update review request

[John Cowan]

Doug Ewell scripsit:

> I don't see what new evidence compels us to change this now.

I don't see any.  Some programming languages already have MIME media types
like application/xslt and text/javascript.

> Number two, if we absolutely MUST change this now, in what sense would 
> variant subtags under "art" not fit the bill?

"art" is for artificial human languages like Esperanto.  People don't
write novels in Java or essays in Cobol.

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