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

["Tjoff Tjonk" <tjoff@tjonk.now>]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:31:11 -0500, Randy McLaughlin wrote:

> At least a more intelligent statement.  I'll ask you the same question i
> have asked others:  Please give me a reference, anything that someone can
> look up.  Without a reference it is just opinion, I gave my reference for
> all to read and respond.  So far the best response is they don't agree with
> the dictionary.  As far as gif, jpg, and doc files why don't we wait for a
> thread about them the thread on something as simple as HTML has already gone
> way to far.

Ok Randy here are two definition for you:

   6. A set of coded instructions that enables a machine, especially a
   computer, to perform a desired sequence of operations.

   7. An instruction sequence in programmed instruction.

Since HTML offers neither instructions nor operations, HTML is not a
programming language as defined above. Now that wasn't so hard, was
it?

(No, an HTML tag is not an instruction. There are no specified actions
that are taken when the HTML renderer encounters a tag - it is just a
way to mark-up the text. HTML tags are similar to comments in
programming languages in this respect.)