Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)

[wildstar <wildstar128@hotmail.com>]

"Tjoff Tjonk" <tjoff@tjonk.now> wrote in
pan.2003.06.19.19.15.30.611928@tjonk.now:">news:pan.2003.06.19.19.15.30.611928@tjonk.now: 

> Randy, it does not matter in which way an HTML page is parsed, since
> there is no code that is being executed - there is nothing that is
> being "performed". This is no different from how a computer program in
> a programming language works. A BASIC program can very well be parsed
> backwards; it is not the parsing that matters. A BASIC interpreter
> could very well parse the BASIC program in any way it wishes to and
> build an internal representation of it before it actually executes the
> program. 
> 
> It is the actual execution that matters - and this is exactly what is
> missing in HTML. You might think that the web browser rendition
> process could be seen as an execution of the HTML text, but it is not.
> The HTML text will only be rendered, much like a GIF or a JPEG image
> is rendered. Or do you consider JPEG and GIF programming languages as
> well? They also describe something (pictures) that are rendered by a
> computer program. What about Microsoft Word .doc files? 


HTML really is no different than the document formatting data in a 
"PaperClip" file. When you log on to a Commodore BBS do you call the 
Color-code a programming language. HTML is just a more advance form of 
that.