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

[wildstar <wildstar128@hotmail.com>]

salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter) wrote in
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> 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.") 

They are often called webpage builders not HTML programmers. What I would 
expect would be a term called website programmers. In that term they 
would be expected to have skills in scripting languages and Java applets 
and various forms of scripting languages and PHP. Straight HTML would not 
be all they need to have in skills. Guess what that is what we already 
expect will high-quality professional website builders.

They are hardly ever called programmers but a programmer can incorporate 
his skill to build professional quality websites. HTML is definitely not 
all. They would clearly need more.