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

["Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com>]

"Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> > HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
> > The basis of the World Wide Web, and what the tutorial is intended to
> teach.
> > HTML is a Document Type Definition (DTD), or subset, of the Standard
> > Generalized Markup Language (SGML).
> >
> > Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
> > An open document definition language much in use in the publishing
> industry.
> > HTML is a definition under SGML.
> >
> > IMHO, if someone thought it appropriate to include the "L" in these
> titles,
> > which happens to stand for "Language", then I must agree with anyone who
> > believes these to BE languages.
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> Oh, and my reference is a University web site,
> > http://www.cwru.edu/help/introHTML/toc.html
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I happen to agree with you 100% HTML is a computer language.

I go further and say it is a computer programming language.

My point is in pointing out not what people know of HTML but what people
don't know about programming.  Programming has been around for hundreds of
years.  The concept of programming helped to create computers.  It amazes me
how people seem to think that programming follows computers.  That to be
programming it must be X, they believe they know X so they know what
programming is.  Programming is not nearly as narrow as some people would
like to make it.