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0 pointsmr_00ff001mo ago0 comments

So is Markdown a programming language? Any logic for html, is therefore Markdown as well.

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zem1mo ago

sure, it's a dsl for generating formatted output

If we trim markdown to just italic, bold, and underline, is it still a programming language?

What if we trim even further, to just the ASCII control codes? My newline characters make the computer perform a special action to generate formatted output. Is that programming?

zem1mo ago

if we trim a regex down to literal character matches is it still a regex?

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zem1mo ago

sure, it's a dsl for generating formatted output

Dylan168071mo ago

If we trim markdown to just italic, bold, and underline, is it still a programming language?

What if we trim even further, to just the ASCII control codes? My newline characters make the computer perform a special action to generate formatted output. Is that programming?

zem1mo ago

if we trim a regex down to literal character matches is it still a regex?

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