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Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
- Subject: Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
- From: "Sam Gillett" <samgillett@msn.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 21:38:03 GMT
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Randy McLaughlin wrote ...
>I think people are missing the point: Computer programming and computer
>programming languages can be extremely mundane including word-processing
>etc. The fact that the people doing these tasks are not called computer
>programmers does not matter. People can talk about what they want a
>computer programming language to contain, that nice but it does not make it
>true.
>
>This makes many "documents" computer programs, but only by definition.
>HTML and many other languages do meet the minimum definition of
>programming, but that is all. Of course that is enough.
After reading all arguments in this very lengthy thread *I* have decided!
HTML is a computer language. HTML is _not_ a computer programming language.
Sorry Randy. :-/
Best regards,
Sam Gillett aka Mars Probe @ Starship Intrepid 1-972-221-4088
Last 8-bit BBS in the Dallas area. Commodore lives!