• mox@lemmy.sdf.org
    2·
    8 months ago

    Counterpoint: A declarative language made and used to program a browser is still a programming language, regardless of its name, heritage, or differences from imperative languages.

    Even wikipedia hints at this with a hello world program.

    • silasmariner@programming.dev
      1·
      8 months ago

      Hypertext markup Language. Yeah this sorta reminds me of why I stopped following r/ProgrammerHumour on the old site - too many cheap potshots at Perl, PHP and HTML, as if they weren’t fantastic tools that powered the creation of the internet we have today. Kids, man, SMH

      • amanaftermidnight@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        Markup language ≠ programming language.
        Markups produce layout, not code.
        Typesetting (the Gutenberg way) produce books, not run the looms.

    • Shareni@programming.dev
      1·
      8 months ago

      Can it manipulate data, does it have logic? Those are the only factors, it doesn’t even need to be Turing complete.

      You can write a composition and play it through the browser, but that doesn’t mean your notes are a programming language.

  • Adalast@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 months ago

    I have had to stop telling people that HTML is not a programming language. I crushed too many souls that way.