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0 pointsyakshaving_jgt3y ago0 comments

> this is a theoretical discussion

With all due respect, I don’t understand what your aim is with this discussion, and at this point I think I’m more confused than when we started. What is your aim here?

> If HTML is a programming language or not, it's debatable

I suppose to some degree, everything is debatable. But this point isn’t somewhere where we’re going to find common ground. Another commenter said it well — with HTML, you get what you write. It’s not a programming language.

In any case, I appreciate you taking the time to expand on your reasoning. I’m just still struggling to make heads or tails of it.

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spamtarget3y ago

Thank you for actually listening and trying to communicate with me, instead of just shooting ad-lib responses like "it's in the textbook so that is that".

I don't really have an aim, I just made a simple statement, and after that everything is back and forth. Classification of languages has no practical implication (or not too much), what it changes is how they are taught, like "INTRO TO PROGRAMMING 101 BEGINNER CLASS FOR DUMMIES"

>I suppose to some degree, everything is debatable.

I just wanted to say that i dont think it's important to decide if HTML is an actual programming language or not, I see it as a language that defines something for a computer. We can just put all alikes into the "Markup-not-programming-language" basket, and that invalidates all of my arguments. I feel in this case there is no big difference in functional/imperative vs declarative languages assuming most of the people's different-than-mine classification, so why even bother then?

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