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

[salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <Xns939F742A514DCwildstar128hotmailco@216.168.3.44>,
wildstar  <wildstar128@hotmail.com> wrote:
>"Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com> wrote in news:jGdIa.14004$nx5.10251
>@fe05.atl2.webusenet.com:
>> Nowhere in your improper definition of programming does it require an
>> internal state and as for the sequence of operations that is exactly what
>> HTML code is.
>
>Your definition of a program is inaccurate. Whoever wrote that definition 
>gave a raw and very bland definition. HTML is a document layout/formatting 
>script. HTML is more a script language then a real programming language. 
>HTML is for formatting the layout of a web-document. More powerful script 
>languages are used to do mathematics.

Even that gives too much credit to HTML...it's not a layout/formatting
language.  It's a markup language (that's the "M" in "HTML").  Document
layout is best left to CSS.  You mark paragraph headings, tables, lists,
text to be emphasized, etc. with HTML, but you use CSS to suggest to the
browser that this block of text goes here and that block of text goes there,
certain types of headings get a different font/color/etc., or whatever.

Your point that HTML is not a programming language and that a chunk of HTML
is not a program is correct enough.  (The logical extension from this is
that there's no such thing as an "HTML programmer," which makes you wonder
what types of people clueless HR weenies think they're going to get when
they put out want-ads for HTML "programmers.")

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